Who wants to remove charitable deduction?

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nordskoven said:
deseretnews.com/article/700189124/Obama-Congress-consider-cutting-deductions-for-donations-to-charities-churches.html

Who wants to remove charitable deductions? Isn’t this the prime incentive for equitable and voluntary redistribution? What will happen to Catholic Charities, for example?
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There is a distinct group here (not, by all means, everybody) who believe it is government’s job to do so “for the common good”

Besides, Catholic Charities gets a lot of funding from the government anyway. In fact, Father Snyder, the President of Catholic Charities USA was an Obama appointee for his “President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships”, so he should have no problem getting Obama to pay for his programs.

And, if complying with government abortion and homosexual mandates becomes a problem, the national and diocesan Catholic Charities organizations can do what they did in Belleville Illinois: sever ties with the Church so that they could continue to support the Democrat social agenda (in that specific case, it was about homosexual adoptions, but, hey, if they want, they could do so and open up “St Judas Abortion Mills”…and get full federal funding!)
 
nordskoven said:
deseretnews.com/article/700189124/Obama-Congress-consider-cutting-deductions-for-donations-to-charities-churches.html

Who wants to remove charitable deductions? Isn’t this the prime incentive for equitable and voluntary redistribution? What will happen to Catholic Charities, for example?
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I want to remove them just because they’re a stupid loophole in the tax code… and those loopholes end up costing taxpayers millions to staff a massive IRS in order to keep up with the overly-fat tax system we currently have.

Flat tax everyone at a lower rate and do away with ALL loopholes.
 
promethius said:
I want to remove them just because they’re a stupid loophole in the tax code… and those loopholes end up costing taxpayers millions to staff a massive IRS in order to keep up with the overly-fat tax system we currently have.

Flat tax everyone at a lower rate and do away with ALL loopholes.
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Hmmm. Yes, perhaps. But in the absence thereof, I personally like having the deduction. I would far rather give money to the Church or to charity than to give it to this regime.
 
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