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Please don't alter the original title of an article (in this case "The Charitable-Giving Divide") to reflect your editorial opinion, especially when your new ti

Please don't alter the original title of an article (in this case "The Charitable-Giving Divide") to reflect your editorial opinion, especially when your new title is not supported by the content of the article. This article does not actually say that tax breaks for the rich don't help the poor, it says that rich people don't give as much to charity as poor people. Personally I think it's true that giving tax breaks to the rich is not a great way to help the poor (i.e. the trickle down effect) but that's not what this article is talking about.

abrown28 16y ago
Bilking the rich through higher taxes does not help the poor either.
- OpieCunningham 16y ago
  Sure it does. If X is the cost of running the country, including schooling, roads, public transportation, etc, and the rich pay a higher portion of their income into X, the poor need pay a lower portion of their income into X in order to have the same level of access as if rich and poor paid the same portion of their income.
OpieCunningham 16y ago
The article does reference tax cuts for the wealthy as a source of the problem. "A generation of political decisions — regarding big business and labor, the deregulation of the financial industry and, yes, tax cuts for the wealthy — have brought our society to this sharply divided, socially and economically polarized place we now find ourselves."
- GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
  Yes, it does say tax cuts are part of the problem but that's very different from a blanket statement that "tax cuts for the rich don't help the poor". More importantly, the article is mostly about how charitable giving is different for rich and poor. Hence the original title was perfect and the HN title was poor at best.
robg 16y ago
That was the subtitle the NY Times used. I thought it more descriptive of the contents than the one you cite.

abrown28 16y ago

Bilking the rich through higher taxes does not help the poor either.

OpieCunningham 16y ago
Sure it does. If X is the cost of running the country, including schooling, roads, public transportation, etc, and the rich pay a higher portion of their income into X, the poor need pay a lower portion of their income into X in order to have the same level of access as if rich and poor paid the same portion of their income.

OpieCunningham 16y ago

The article does reference tax cuts for the wealthy as a source of the problem. "A generation of political decisions — regarding big business and labor, the deregulation of the financial industry and, yes, tax cuts for the wealthy — have brought our society to this sharply divided, socially and economically polarized place we now find ourselves."

GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
Yes, it does say tax cuts are part of the problem but that's very different from a blanket statement that "tax cuts for the rich don't help the poor". More importantly, the article is mostly about how charitable giving is different for rich and poor. Hence the original title was perfect and the HN title was poor at best.

robg 16y ago

That was the subtitle the NY Times used. I thought it more descriptive of the contents than the one you cite.