• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      The number of people who don’t understand the difference between a tax deduction and a tax credit is too damn high.

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        8 months ago

        It’s also an index of the health of society, if you think about it, and as you’ve noticed, society is pretty near dead.

        Sharpen your pitchforks.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      I’m not sure what you mean, since money you donate to charity is exempt from income tax. The taxes you would otherwise pay on income that you donate is refunded to you.

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        8 months ago

        So you think that donating a dollar to get 37 cents back is better than keeping that dollar because what?

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      8 months ago

      People who look at a billionaire and think “I need to kill him”. Anything anyone with that kind of money does, is treated as the greatest evil in the entire world.