{"id":60230,"date":"2016-09-20T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60230"},"modified":"2016-09-18T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T02:21:50","slug":"charitable-exhortation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60230","title":{"rendered":"Charitable Exhortation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In what conceivable way <a href=\"https:\/\/ramseynet.us\/content\/suggestions-needed-2016-charitable-campaign-theme\"><span class=\"s2\">is my charitable giving any of my employer\u2019s business<\/span><\/a>? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">More annoying \u2013 they pick some charity they want to fund and hit up everybody to contribute.\u00a0 I nominate the National Rifle Association.\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Why does it have to be the United Way funneling money to Leftist causes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">A \u201ccharitable contribution\u201d is, by definition, a non-governmental activity for which my contribution is tax-deductible.\u00a0 Why would a governmental entity be encouraging government employees to reduce the tax revenues from which we\u2019re funded?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">It&#8217;s not like tax revenue ever really drops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In what conceivable way is my charitable giving any of my employer\u2019s business? \u00a0 \u00a0More annoying \u2013 they pick some charity they want to fund and hit up everybody to contribute.\u00a0 I nominate the National Rifle Association.\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Why does it have to be the United Way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60231,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60230\/revisions\/60231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}