Do free enterprise advocates just care about the 1%?

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American Enterprise Institute :

Arthur Brooks

6/6/12

 

The most remarkable fact about charity in America is how highly it correlates with ideology and beliefs about the role of government. People who believe in the free enterprise system simply give a lot more — both time and money — than people who don’t. In a nutshell, people who believe in limited government privately give much more than their statist neighbors.

 

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The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise

Arthur Brooks

Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions--by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding merit to redistributing wealth.