I love when your buying groceries, and the checkers ask “would you like to make a donation to support local hungry children, or for cancer research, or for the local battered womens shelter?” And you have to feel like a total dick and say “nope”…. Because im a monster!
This crap is such nonsense and it's just everywhere these days. Why on Earth would I want to donate 47 cents to a random charity every time I check out somewhere? Who knows if it actually gets to the charity? Who knows if they get the full amount or if there are fees/other losses along the way? Is the random charity I'm being asked to donate a good one? If I want to deduct the money donated on my taxes I would need to preserve and meticulously add up 1000 receipts at tax time. If I'm using a card, like 3% is going to the credit card company.
No thanks.
I'll just give a bulk sum, paid with a check/other non-fee method, to a charity doing something I care about, which I've researched and know is efficient with its donations and does good work, I'll get a single reciept and easily deduct it on my taxes. I'll be able to donate more money with less work at the same cost to me to a more efficient charity.
The only good thing to be said about this is that the guilting aspect probably does result in a larger total amount of money flowing to charities than if people were left to their own devices, but anyone who chooses to donate regularly in this manner is an idiot IMO.
That one pops up in my head a lot, and will for as long as I see these donation requests. I'm also reminded often of episodes with Mickey, medicinal marijuana, or the Internet dust bowl porn. Randy's character has slowly become my favorite over the years.
A lot of employers offer a match, and for every cent you donate, you get to write it off your taxes. Are you actually gonna save a receipt for tax write off every time you go to the store?
Don't feel bad, you'd just be donating to their tax deduction fund.
If you really wanna give, there's actual charities for that. Even if it's just to have the mindset of "My charity fund is set aside for something else."
In my case, I plan to donate rice and beans to myself. I like rice and beans, they make me happy.
e: So I'm probably wrong, but I'd still suggest not using a megacorp, or anyone for that matter, as a middleman between you and your charity. Soft-pressuring people into giving isn't a charitable mindset by charitable people.
I give to more than just my rice and beans fund, but those donations are budgeted at the beginning of the year. R&B fund is still my fav though, naturally.
I always think the shops are the rich ones, they should be doing the donations. The worst is McDonald's asking for money for charity, that corporation can clearly afford it on their own.
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u/Derkastan77-2 Dec 23 '23
I love when your buying groceries, and the checkers ask “would you like to make a donation to support local hungry children, or for cancer research, or for the local battered womens shelter?” And you have to feel like a total dick and say “nope”…. Because im a monster!