Posted on 09/15/2017 3:03:16 PM PDT by davikkm
President Trump and the First Lady made a promise to the victims of Hurricane Harvey, and many are asking if they kept it. They gave $1 million of their own money to charities helping the Houston area recover from Hurricane Harvey. After witnessing the charities working firsthand themselves, they knew where they wanted their donation to go. They split the gift among 12 nonprofits, the White House announced Wednesday.
The two largest individual gifts were given to the Salvation Army and the Red Cross. These two well respected charities received $300,000 each. I know for a fact that there is no better charity to support than the Salvation Army, as they are genuine and their outreach is impeccable.
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Unless your church is doing the work that Salvation Army is doing you are missing an opportunity. Same is true of Samaritans Purse
You hear that?
It’s the sound of crickets chirping, from the mega-rich Clintons.
I’ve always had a question in the back of my head about donations to charities or charitable organizations....
When somebody donates, the “donator” gets to claim a deduction in his/her/its income tax filing. Which means that, part of the donation is being contributed from the tax collections or government funds. Receiving a deduction means that one is not really contributing the whole amount “donated” if one gets back some of that money via the deduction.
So, why not make “donations” not deductible and have the donators pay the whole amount?
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