Unfortunately, the tax laws supporting these charities have effectively silenced them when it comes to fighting for those social values that are being twisted to our ruin.
Worse, the number of tax-exempt "charities" which are funding everything from green groups to the various "health and safety" causes that are instead focused upon institution regulations favorable to their parent corporations are legion. Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, Pew, Jones, Hewlett, Packard, DuPont, Gates, MacAllister... these heirs of industrial giants are today witless thugs hiding behind "charity" to shelter their spending money, their employees' work dedicated to destroying this nation for fun and profit.
Until you can tell me how you are going distinguish true charity from tax-exempt racketeering in the law, I think it time for the charitable deduction to go. True charity will return when we limit government spending and retain the cash with which to do that work.
> By far the largest share of charitable giving goes to religious institutions.
Who redistribute it to the needy. It’s not for profit.
I thought 0 said he was going to give HOPE to the American people. Isn’t helping them outing times of need giving them “hope”? You take away incentives to help those in need and you will dash the needies hope into oblivion.
What better way is there to "limit government spending and retain the cash with which to do that work" than denying that money to the government on the condition that it will "do that work" of charity? Yes, there are certainly many charities that do work that you and I might disagree with, just as there are many charities that do work that progressives disagree with (nearly all religious institutions, most private schools, most religious-based social services, etc.). I would certainly welcome a discussion about whether the tax laws are overly restrictive with respect to the ability of charities to fight for "social values", or whether they should be more restrictive with respect to any lobbying that they might engage in that could benefit their parent corporations. But no I don't agree at all with getting rid of the deduction. One of the main reasons that I believe so strongly in the free market system is the inherent superiority of voluntary interactions between free people (business and charity), as opposed to government-enforced coercion (taxes and entitlements). If you take the charity part out of the equation, you will see people just demanding even more taxes and entitlements to address the worsened social problems.