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Companies and large retail stores have these donation boxes for individuals to donate food into. I thought: why won't the companies donate themselves? The French have a good idea with legislating restaurants to donate unserved food to the homeless.
But more importantly taxing people so a proper universal social security net exists. Donations and charities are symptom treatment (and very inefficient treatment at that), while proper social security is treatment on a structural level.
Came here to see this.
So sick of seeing Mackenzie Scott articles. She shouldn't even be able to donate billions of dollars. She should be paying some fucking taxes.
Shes basicslly the only billionare currently donating her fortune away. Ideally that fortune would never have existed, but at least shes largely doing that herself.
Hopefully you save some vitrol for the billionares shattering the planet and not just for the one who actually, somewhat agrees that they have too much money and are doing something about it.
I hate them all equally, but I reserve special vitriol for those who performatively donate it in order to generate favorable news headlines, whether it's your favorite pop star, a celebrity athlete, or a wizened beloved investment oracle.
They're all parasites and shouldn't exist.
They don't donate it themselves, because it's all a scam to get customers to subsidize their charitable tax deductions. Same reason Taco Bell always asks if you want to round up.
NEVER do that shit. Donate yourself, directly, if you actually want to.
I used to think this too, and it's going around because it's excellent and plausible outrage bait.
...But as of now, that is not how it works. They are simply a collection point for the nonprofit / charity / whatever, and cannot use customers' donations to offset their own taxes.
I agree though, folks should just donate straight to good causes, but these "round up" campaigns actually generate a lot of money for charity organizations, and villainizing them is counter productive.
A few articles about this:
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-false-claim-checkout-charities-offset-corporate-taxes/7622379002/
All that said: Yes, scumbag corpos should be strongarmed to pay their damn taxes, and those taxes should go to the public good instead of warships and corruption!