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End Charitable Deductions

New Orleans Thinking about it, there’s really not much of a consistent, coherent, politically progressive position that can defend the continued existence of the charitable tax deduction for donors, both citizen and rich.  I think we should all do our part to support the government and, hey, even take a shot at the debt, [...]

For the Rich Results are Bah Humbug

New Orleans I was fascinated by an article in today’s Times about something called Charity Navigator, which would like to influence the way donors give by herding them into a “financial” or “strictly business” evaluation process.  The piece was about their attempt to retool “…to add evaluations of a nonprofit’s accountability and transparency to [...]

Poor Give More

Ocean Springs The poor are more generous that the rich, and in fact the poorer you are, the more likely a larger portion of your income is given to others. For the poor experience drives empathy and action. For the rich it turns out that talk is in fact cheap.

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