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From: robison@princeton.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Charity (quote at end)
Message-ID: <1057@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 14:14:07 EST
Article-I.D.: princeto.1057
Posted: Fri Mar  1 14:14:07 1985
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Reply-To: robison@princeton.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Summary: 

In order to decide how to tax charity, one must inevitably think
in terms of preferential subsidies, not moral logic.  Every tax
advantage or disadvantage is a statement by our government that we wish
to encourage, or discourage, a certain type of spending.  As logical
as any subsidy may be, there are always many reasonable alternatives.


And now, the truly useful part of this letter:  The IRS thinks that
most people who claim to give 10% of their income to charity are
lying.  Making this claim is a very good way to get audited.

-- toby {princeton!robison}, not robinson.

The quote:
In article <695@whuxlm.UUCP> sdb@whuxlm.UUCP (Brener Stanley) writes:
>According to my understanding, a person should give 10 percent of their
>income to charity.
>MY question: Shouldn't taxes be applied as
>a credit against the required charitable donations?  A lot of taxes 
>are used  to help the poor.