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Scholarships are not charities.
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Most, probably all, private colleges and universities in the US provide scholarships from their endowments. Endowments come from benefactors. Given the miserable state of government funded scholarships in the US right now, I'd venture that most scholarship money at private schools is coming from non-government sources.
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chuckakers 425
QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteDonald Trump was on this morning talking about some of the other deductions taking a hit. Contributions to charities will no longer be deductions. Sucks to be a charity that relies on large private donations.
Sounds good to me. Why should anyone's contribution to running the country be reduced just because they want to give money to a megachurch or an art museum?
Or a local mission for the homeless, or a battered women's shelter, or an orphanage, or the Red Cross, or an animal adoption center, or a boys and girls club, or a food bank, or a local scholarship fund, or a Goodwill store, or a home for runaways.
It's called incentivising good deeds and it works pretty well....or did.
Why would good deeds need incentives? Isn't being good incentive enough in itself? (Maybe not for Republicans.)
The facts:
Biden and wife averaged $369 per year to charities in the past 10 years. Biden and wife claimed $995 in charitable gifts in 2007 or 0.3 percent of income of nearly $320,000.
McCain in 2007 reported $405,409 in total income and charitable contributions of $105,467, or 26 percent of total income.
McCain files a separate return from wife. The totals do not include Ms. McCain’s charitable contributions.
Obama and wife donated $240,000 in 2007, or about 5.7 percent of the couple’s $4.2-million in income.
Seems I remember Gore and Kerry followed the democrat mold too. I also remember during the election hearing about a poll from one of the big research outfits that people who identified themselves as democrats gave far less overall in dollars and even volunteer work than people ho identified themselves as republicans.
That makes sense, though. Maybe Democrats don't give as much to charity because getting a tax deduction would take money away from the government.
Fascinating but not relevant.
How does any of that information answer the question of WHY a good deed isn't incentive enough?
It doesn't. I just wanted to take moment to point out an interesting contrast since the reply took a jab at republicans (which Im not, BTW).
The answer to the question posed is simple. Already generous people will tend to give more when they know they will get a break for it. Greedy people won't give whether an incentive is offered or not.
So I guess you could say the incentive is to get generous people to up the ante to cover what the greedy people won't give.
Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX
D-10855
Houston, TX
kallend 2,027
QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteDonald Trump was on this morning talking about some of the other deductions taking a hit. Contributions to charities will no longer be deductions. Sucks to be a charity that relies on large private donations.
Sounds good to me. Why should anyone's contribution to running the country be reduced just because they want to give money to a megachurch or an art museum?
Or a local mission for the homeless, or a battered women's shelter, or an orphanage, or the Red Cross, or an animal adoption center, or a boys and girls club, or a food bank, or a local scholarship fund, or a Goodwill store, or a home for runaways.
It's called incentivising good deeds and it works pretty well....or did.
Why would good deeds need incentives? Isn't being good incentive enough in itself? (Maybe not for Republicans.)
The facts:
Biden and wife averaged $369 per year to charities in the past 10 years. Biden and wife claimed $995 in charitable gifts in 2007 or 0.3 percent of income of nearly $320,000.
McCain in 2007 reported $405,409 in total income and charitable contributions of $105,467, or 26 percent of total income.
McCain files a separate return from wife. The totals do not include Ms. McCain’s charitable contributions.
Obama and wife donated $240,000 in 2007, or about 5.7 percent of the couple’s $4.2-million in income.
Seems I remember Gore and Kerry followed the democrat mold too. I also remember during the election hearing about a poll from one of the big research outfits that people who identified themselves as democrats gave far less overall in dollars and even volunteer work than people ho identified themselves as republicans.
That makes sense, though. Maybe Democrats don't give as much to charity because getting a tax deduction would take money away from the government.
Fascinating but not relevant.
How does any of that information answer the question of WHY a good deed isn't incentive enough?
It doesn't. ]
Just as I figured - performing an evasive maneuver.
...
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
chuckakers 425
QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteDonald Trump was on this morning talking about some of the other deductions taking a hit. Contributions to charities will no longer be deductions. Sucks to be a charity that relies on large private donations.
Sounds good to me. Why should anyone's contribution to running the country be reduced just because they want to give money to a megachurch or an art museum?
Or a local mission for the homeless, or a battered women's shelter, or an orphanage, or the Red Cross, or an animal adoption center, or a boys and girls club, or a food bank, or a local scholarship fund, or a Goodwill store, or a home for runaways.
It's called incentivising good deeds and it works pretty well....or did.
Why would good deeds need incentives? Isn't being good incentive enough in itself? (Maybe not for Republicans.)
The facts:
Biden and wife averaged $369 per year to charities in the past 10 years. Biden and wife claimed $995 in charitable gifts in 2007 or 0.3 percent of income of nearly $320,000.
McCain in 2007 reported $405,409 in total income and charitable contributions of $105,467, or 26 percent of total income.
McCain files a separate return from wife. The totals do not include Ms. McCain’s charitable contributions.
Obama and wife donated $240,000 in 2007, or about 5.7 percent of the couple’s $4.2-million in income.
Seems I remember Gore and Kerry followed the democrat mold too. I also remember during the election hearing about a poll from one of the big research outfits that people who identified themselves as democrats gave far less overall in dollars and even volunteer work than people ho identified themselves as republicans.
That makes sense, though. Maybe Democrats don't give as much to charity because getting a tax deduction would take money away from the government.
Fascinating but not relevant.
How does any of that information answer the question of WHY a good deed isn't incentive enough?
It doesn't. ]
Just as I figured - performing an evasive maneuver.
Uh...yeah, ok.
Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX
D-10855
Houston, TX
mnealtx 0
QuoteJust as I figured - performing an evasive maneuver.
You should well know!!
Welcome back, John - I hope all is well with you and yours?
Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706
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Welcome back, John - I hope all is well with you and yours?
Isn't that just going to encourage him?
We are all engines of karma
mnealtx 0
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Welcome back, John - I hope all is well with you and yours?
Isn't that just going to encourage him?
*shrug*
He's a good guy, even if we don't agree on political issues.
Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706
kallend 2,027
QuoteQuoteJust as I figured - performing an evasive maneuver.
You should well know!!
Welcome back, John - I hope all is well with you and yours?
Just passing through.
...
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
mnealtx 0
QuoteJust passing through.
Well, congrats on the interim promotion!!
Quoteand it's a super time sink.
Or maybe not.
Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706
Fascinating but not relevant.
How does any of that information answer the question of WHY a good deed isn't incentive enough?
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