Posted by Pete on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Charity groups are still jittery over a proposed tax change they say could cause wealthy donors to give less, despite assurances from President Obama this week that donations are unlikely to go down because of a reduction in the tax deduction for charitable contributions.
While Obama argues that his administration is trying to make sure low-income donors enjoy the same tax benefits for their giving as high-income donors, charities and the organizations that represent them say they are concerned they could end up paying the price for a more equitable tax code.
“To put any block between the donor and the charity at this time, I think, is not helpful,” said Lisa Hillman, board chairwoman for the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.
Obama told reporters during his prime-time press conference Tuesday that charities are wrong to assume the change will discourage donations.
“There’s very little evidence that this has a significant impact on charitable giving,” the president said.
But Hillman said her organization’s opposition to the change still stands.
“I want to believe him, but I don’t think that this … is helpful,” she said.
Ironically, Obama’s proposal to change tax policy is intended to help raise hundreds of billions of dollars for expanding health care — but Hillman said in the near-term, the tweak to charitable donations policy could put more strain on hospitals that rely heavily on philanthropy.
*****OK, this is what we call, in the vernacular, Spreading the wealth! Take from the donators who have the means to fund charitable programs and redistribute it to a social health care system, that will fail.*********
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Posted by admin on February 10, 2009 · 3 Comments
02/10/09
Last night all of us were treated to Obama’s first news conference as our president. While most of the media is calling it a success I am puking up my cheerios.
As usual, he performed quite well while reading his teleprompters. He showed his inexperience and inability to stay on point when he began taking questions from the so-called press. A few of the questions came from actual journalists while others came from bloggers and columnists. This was the first press conference where those who are not a part of the White House Press Corps were allowed. However, in case you missed it The Washington Post’s Michael A. Fletcher asked the most pressing question that is on every American’s mind, “What do you think about the admission by baseball star Alex Rodriguez that he once used steroids?” Idiot.
Obama’s prepared statement was, thankfully, quite short. For those who are not fluent in ObamaSpeak, I have provided the short transcript of his statement with what he really meant in red italics.
OBAMA: Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Hello my little pretties. Thank you for worshiping me.
Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly about the state of our economy and why I believe we need to put this recovery plan in motion as soon as possible. Before I take questions from my biggest fans like The Huffington Post and Helen Thomas, who really aren’t even journalists, I would like to manipulate you into blindness about my socialist package. Read more
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