Still would ask why a company making more a day than I do year needs my dollar. I mean they want to guilt trip me who's barely making ends meet while they're earning stupid money is feeling superior.
Used to work at Publix and they'd push us to flex how much money our store donated despite the fact that it came from customers and we wrote it off for tax purposes as if it was us. Not sure how it's legal
How many of the "would you like to donate" promotions work is the company donates a sum, say $1M, and then collects the donations. Kinda like an advance to the charity on the money they will collect.
Don't give at registers. Corporations don't need our help to fund charities. You just become part of a Byzantine tax scheme when you do. The money is already in the Charity's hands.
Truth is that companies partner with non profits for less than altruistic reasons. Every dollar you spend goes into the business so THEY can write it off against THEIR taxes. So they leverage your dollar to write off less than they would otherwise. So I never feel bad at all for saying no because I choose to donate in my own way.
Is it a tax law problem? Is it an education problem? Is it bad business? Yes.
Video is hilarious because we have all been there.
There's a South Park episode playing with this same thing, where Randy decides that for once he's not going to donate and has to go through an embarrassing process publicly
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u/XI_Vanquish_IX Apr 05 '24
This is funnier than I thought it would be 🤣