[Cicero]

As several posters have noted, rich liberals tend to give their money either to questionable charities, like Stanford, or to actively destructive charities, like Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NOW, the ACLU, or the like.

It's too bad there isn't some way to weed out the destructive charities and foundations. Unfortunately, just the opposite tends to happen. The Christian Coalition, a somewhat naive but useful organization, lost its taxfree status, but the ACLU will never be subjected to the same legal challenge to its far more egregious behavior.

[staytrue]

It's too bad there isn't some way to weed out the destructive charities and foundations.

Eliminate the charitable deduction (and most any deduction) from the income tax code and lower the tax rate.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I haven't read the above so this may be redundant but what is a charity and why do these government leftist taxpayer feeder groups qualify? Why are our organizations biting the bullet? No response necessary.

[MarkL]

It's too bad there isn't some way to weed out the destructive charities and foundations. Unfortunately, just the opposite tends to happen. The Christian Coalition, a somewhat naive but useful organization, lost its taxfree status, but the ACLU will never be subjected to the same legal challenge to its far more egregious behavior.

Seek, and ye shall find...

Here are some of my favorites...

City Union Mission in KC (you'll be able to find shelters in your own city),

Harvesters, a KC food bank

Hope House, a local woman's (and children) shelter

and of course, The Salvation Army.

And I donate time to the synagoge that I belong to as well. I'm in the process of upgrading their entire network, on nights and weekends, after hours, so I don't have to bill them for my time. If you spend just a little time, you will find worthy charities. And the way I see it, the closer they are to "the work," the less chance that there will be execs getting hundreds of thousands of $$$ in salaries.

Mark