# Can anyone here morally justify Obama's proposed tax on charitable contributions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 13, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-here-morally-justify-obamas-proposed-tax-on-charitable-contributions/489312 "2009-03-13T07:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-here-morally-justify-obamas-proposed-tax-on-charitable-contributions/489312/7 "2009-03-13T10:24:14Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Capping the tax break at 28% for a charitable deduction instead of 33% is _not_ taxing charitable contributions. It is a bit interesting. Of personal concern to me, but I don’t really have a huge issue with it. Why not increase the break? Personally I think charitable contributions should be deductable at 100%. Of course that would never fly with the unions that represent the public employee union drones that suck up nine out of every ten dollars funneled through the public teat before it ever gets to a needy person. Of course those members can be unified to vote Democratic, whereas the folks on the dole may or may not show up to vote, or even understand where their bread is buttered. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-here-morally-justify-obamas-proposed-tax-on-charitable-contributions/489312)._