What is your reason for being liberal?

[Xiahou]

If you look at the government as parents, which is a fair analogy

You're a liberal all right.

Then you recognize that your hard work resulted in actual property, as it should - because the system worked for you and your inherent advantages... and that other's hard work, folks without your inherent advantages, resulted in their hard-scrabble existance(s). And you try to figure out ways to equalize that treatment.

Charity? That's what I dont get. Why libs think that the government, something inherently ineffecient, corrupt and wasteful, is the best and only choice to help the disadvantage... If you think 50% of your income should go to help those less fortunate, then donate it.