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Edited by Neno is drunk:
3/26/2014 10:29:30 PM
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Should giving money to charity be an obligation?
Or should it be only considered morally good but not necessary?
Say the government for whatever reason decided that in addition to your taxes, 1% of your paycheck is now going to some charity (be it world hunger relief, global education, veteran help, etc). Would you be okay with this?
Or should charity be only something that is morally good to do, but not morally bad if you don't do it.
P.S have you guys ever donated anything to charity or know of any good charity's that you would like to mention
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1 ReplyThen it is called a tax and not a donation.
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1 ReplyYes. Please send me your bank account and credit card information to makinstacks@gmail.com.
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3 RepliesWhich charity would it go to? There's literally thousands in the US alone. I'm not sure if it works this way in the US, but I can designate a portion of my wages to be automatically donated to a charity of my choice by my employer. The total donations show up on my T4 slip, and I can claim them as a donation tax credit on my return.
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6 RepliesIsn't the whole point of charity to do it out of the kindness if your heart? Like others have said, it's not charity if its forced. Plus, if want to choose. I'm not sending my money to something like cancer when there are other causes with much less funding out there.
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12 RepliesEdited by physman: 3/26/2014 9:48:13 PMI know there are already a large portion of people who are religiously obligated to give charity. Other than that, I live in Canada and am paying a ridiculously high amount of taxes (over $50,000 a year). This is why I'm moving to the U.S within the next year. I've had so many of my friends (who get drunk every night and never bothered to study even for 10 minutes a day while they were in school since they were too busy partying and who now have a low paying jobs since they did nothing productive in their lives) come up to me and say 'look, this is so cool, the Canadian government just gave me a huge loan for free, now I can spend it. I already bought a car and house with the loan which I don't have to pay back, I'm gunna go and buy a ps4 now and throw a party at my house!'.. That money isn't for free, the canadian government taxes the hard working people who actually bothered to land a good job and get educated and gives the money to the people who f*cked around in school, didn't bother to get educated and who are now worthless and can't get a job anywhere since they aren't useful in any way to any company. It's ridiculous, I would totally be against the government even asking for a penny more, even if it is for 'charity'. I wouldn't be surprised if they say it's for charity and end up using it for themselves, they already steal enough money from us tax payers. Free health-care my ass.
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Absolutely not. Charity should remain as is, a clever tax write off.
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1 ReplyHelping veterans I'd be okay with. The rest...
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1 ReplyIf it is forced, it is no longer a donation, it is no longer charity but is an obligation. The thing about charitable giving is that the person chooses to give. How to give, what to give, who to give to, and so on. The moment someone else says "you should give this much to this cause" that's not charity. That's obligation, or if it is being mandated by government, it's taxation.
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3 RepliesI don't see it as charity if you're forced to do it, so no.
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1 ReplyWhose morals are we using as the standard?
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5 RepliesNever donated, never will.
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Edited by cxkxr: 3/26/2014 9:25:45 PM>Implying we're not already coerced to. OT: No.
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5 RepliesNo I'll donate if I -blam!-ing want to, our tax goes to national aid so why should I pay more? The only other charity I do if I personally give money to someone that'll benefit from it, not tramps.
