Obama Targeting Charitable Deductions

STEVELACKNER.COM ^ | March 25, 2009 | Steven W. Lackner

[allmost]

He’s taxing formerly non taxable foundations, organizations, etc. They are talking about taxing CO2, the air we breathe. It’s not that much of a leap to heart monitors. They can tax us per beat.

[BenLurkin]

Doesn't make sense.

Charity is a good thing.

Big government is an anathema.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The “messiah” needs everyone to be dependent on his government. Charities too! He doesn’t want to be a one term president.

[JamesA]

I wonder how long before he taxes Chruches?

[boknows]

I hope he’s not a one-YEAR president.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Libs and Statists despise private charity. They believe this is exclusively a province of government. Its also why they give so little of their own money.

[Ann Archy]

The ones that will suffer will be the Opera, Museums, and high falutin” “charities”. Good people will still give to their Churches.

[allmost]

I wonder how long before he taxes Chruches?

This is a tax on 'charity'. It affects Churches. The government just takes their chunk in the donation phase. Technically not from the Church.

[DustyMoment]

The Obamoron continues to prove on the world stage that he is a clueless idiot.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is enjoying laughing at us squirm under the glare of lights that have focused on Washington ever since the circus came to town.

Question is, will they still be laughing the next time they need our help and there is no money and no resources to help out??

[101viking]

More smoke and mirrors. While everyone..press..politicians...blogs...etc. wrings their hands and spends hundreds of hours on the “charitable” deduction, they will ram through a budget with every democratic/socialist dream in place. After it's over Obama will look into the camera and say I made a mistake. His fan club will forgive him and we'll be stuck with the mess.

[YOUGOTIT]

This is so that the government can provide the money to the Charitable organizations so they can tell them what to do with the money.

No money to a organization that supports life or that supports the Bible or that supports freedom of the individual.

[seanrobins]

The Presidential ‘Prompter A-Hole Spaeketh!

[AndyTheBear]

"if it's really a charitable contribution, I'm assuming that that shouldn't be the determining factor as to whether you're giving that $100 to the homeless shelter down the street."

WRONG!

Real charity is when you give till it hurts...not when you just give what you can comfortably spare.

Now maybe for some that $100 bucks really cuts into their budget...that is exactly the one who he is hurting with these changes!

[JoanneSD]

Obama could send an extra hundred to his brother who lives in a tin hut....

[ari-freedom]

“Good people will still give to their Churches.”

nope, you think Obama and his liberal friends want the churches to survive when everything else is going under? They hate religion first and foremost.

and btw I don’t see what is so liberal about operas. Opera singers actually care about classical skill and quality, unlike most of the pop junk we hear all the time.

[khnyny]

I heard on the radio today that the Obama’s gave less than 1% of their income to charity last year. Less than 1%. Not sure if it is accurate information, of course, but if it is true, it’s quite revealing.

[Irene Adler]

"Libs and Statists despise private charity. They believe this is exclusively a province of government. Its also why they give so little of their own money."

You have this precisely correct. It's one of the ways in which leftwing thinking is totally at odds with traditional civic beliefs in the U.S. and somewhat similar previous, traditional civic beliefs in the Western world, generally. Leftists take every good thing and turn it on its head. They hate virtue because every vitue must come from government and be dangled in front of a helpless and resentful populace to gain compliance. Reading posts to leftwing internet sites is absolutely stunning for those who can stand it. There truly are a lot of really dangerously deluded people in this country today, a product of our wonderful educational system (both public and private/exclusive). "Woe to them who call evil good and good evil."

[MarkL]

Obama says that "I shouldn't get a $38 dollar tax deduction if I donate $100, while someone with a $50,000 income only gets a $28 deduction, for the same $100...

OK, I agree: It's just not fair. Given that logic, if someone who makes $10,000,000 is taxed at nearly 40%, while someone who makes $50,000 is taxed at 28%, well, that's just not fair either. The $10,000,000 earner is being treated unfairly, by Obama's own logic.

There can only be ONE real reason for this. Because leftists hate the idea that Charities operate outside of government control. They want to hurt, and if possible, put independent charities out of business.

Mark

[Irene Adler]

"...you think Obama and his liberal friends want the churches to survive when everything else is going under? They hate religion first and foremost."

This is also correct. Christianity is in for some increasingly rough treatment in this country. Be ready.