Charity that prominently carries your name isn't charity, it's PR, amirite?

Do you know why charity is tax deductible? Because we want people to give to charity, even if they do it for selfish reasons. Because when someone truly needs charity, they don't care if it was given with pure intentions or not, it still helps.

by Kristianwalter 4 days ago

oh snap

by StorageAvailable 4 days ago

The problem isn't from where the money comes. It's what these "charities" do with it. I do agree though. A buck is a buck to someone who needs it. The idea of charity, no matter the motivation, is good. How our upper society does it is not.

by Anonymous 4 days ago

It would be even better if we just taxed them fairly then we wouldn't need as much charity just to have basic services.

by Lazy-Classic-7144 4 days ago

More of the money makes it to the people who need help if it is directly donated to the charity. Running the money through the government instead of directly to the charity uses some of it up.

by Anonymous 4 days ago

On the other hand, government money has strings attached and is designated for a specific purpose. Donor funds are unrestricted money that's often used to pay for things the government won't. For example, donor funds in college paid for beer at the Friday student get-together. Another use might be executive compensation packages.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

This guy utilitarianisms

by beierdenis 3 days ago

I'll give you ego trip or attempting to control a public image.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Nothing wrong. Some people whole life is leeching on freebees and begging charity. Some donations we gotta do in such a way that even other hand wont know about it. And some we gotta advertise and build image

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Who cares. At the end of the day, a good cause is getting money.

by Jaronhirthe 3 days ago

well it is obviously not the same ad buying an ad since the ad is missing the donation bit...

by StorageAvailable 3 days ago

Imagine being stranded in the wilderness and a youtuber makes a video about coming to find and rescue you. You gonna be like "naa bro this is just a pr stunt. You don't really want to save me you just tryna look good so gtfo of here". Or are you gonna say thanks?

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Buying an ad for what?

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Yeah, that's what charity is: a way for rich people to launder their image. Also a way to extend financial control. For example, a lot of bill gates money he'll never need to spend, so his foundation invests, giving him a huge stake in the decisions of a lot of medical companies, third world "development," etc.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Let's say like "The Gates Foundation" or formally Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or whatever is called. Everybody knows Bill Gates already. It's a firm with about 5000 employees managing the money and deciding where it goes, and investigating that the money is being spent properly. The bulk of it is just transfers to smaller charities.

by gunner23 3 days ago

One noteable thing about their foundation is they had also made themselves the heads, so they still had the final control over where every dime went. It was also a very convenient way for them to protect their money from taxes being nonprofit while they still maintained control of it.

by Wolfjeanette 3 days ago

The IRS agrees. It's recorded as advertising if you're a business.

by Possible_Tea4203 3 days ago

It shouldn't be tax-deductible So you want fewer people do get the help they need? it's most often just self-aggrandizement. The people being helped don't give two pieces of damn.

by Anonymous 3 days ago

Would be hard to think of a worse opinion, unpopular or otherwise.

by CodOk 3 days ago