Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
A colleague predicts charitable giving will plummet next year.\u00a0 Charitable contributions will not be deductible under the new tax law, but your personal exemption will increase to $10,000 per person.\u00a0 No net effect on most people\u2019s income taxes; but if you are effectively getting the charitable deduction without actually making a charitable contribution, why contribute?\u00a0 Who\u2019d be foolish enough to throw money away like that?<\/a><\/p>\n
This is how Liberals view the world.\u00a0 Liberals make charitable contributions to get tax breaks.\u00a0 No tax break \u2013 no charitable contribution.<\/p>\n
That is not how Conservatives view the world.\u00a0 We make charitable contributions to help others and we consistently give more than our Liberal brethren.\u00a0 The tax break is nice but even if we don\u2019t get it, we\u2019re still going to make our same contributions.<\/p>\n
Charitable giving is not for the tax break, it\u2019s for the soul. \u00a0Liberals failing to understand that, explains much of what\u2019s gone wrong in America since they rammed through The Great Society.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Joe’s outlook is sunnier than mine.\u00a0 The left at its core detests charity.\u00a0 They want it socialized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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