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To: LindyBill who wrote (467235)	1/25/2012 12:00:09 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (4) of 793552

All Religious donations are considered charity. Is the charitable deduction deducted from income, or from taxes owed? In other words, can we all theoretically figure out how much our taxes will be for a given year, and then give that amount to our religious group rather to the federal government? Charitable donations seem a bizarre deduction in general. Why should giving money to an organization which searches for the cure to cancer absolve one from his obligation to pay a "fair" share of the federal government operating cost? It's especially bizarre if it's a donation to a religion - why should a member of a certain religion be allowed to pay his priest's salary, and therefore not pay his "fair" share of the US military's salaries?

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