Conservatives and Liberals and giving back

Conservatives have the false reputation of not giving to the poor. An article from http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=725 give this interesting bit of  information from a 2004 survey :

Those who opposed government income-redistribution contributed, on average, $267 more to charity each year than the income-redistribution advocates. "In other words," Brooks writes, "people in favor of forced income redistribution are privately less charitable than those who oppose it, regardless of how much money they earn."