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[QUOTE="reedny, post: 2411340, member: 1423"]
Despite all my efforts, this issue keeps popping up in the wrong thread. But since you guys insist, it's pretty clear that the conversation, including Milly's comments about charitable deductions, begs for more context. It's reductionist. The fact is, every single provision in the tax code affects all taxpayers. When you give fat cats a tax break for their private jets, we all have to pay more to make up the difference. When you let hedge fund managers pay income tax at the capital gains rate, we all subsidize that. When you reduce the corporate tax rate, individual taxpayers will get shafted. The governments expenditures are, to a great extent, fixed. Republicans didn't have the guts to cut discretionary spending and didn't even bother to propose entitlement reforms. They just did what Bush did in the early 2000's .. they got in office promising "conservative values", rammed through a sweetheart deal (mostly) for the rich, and glibly added more than a Trillion dollars (probably substantially more) to the national debt. That's not "conservative". It's just another massive "re-distributionist" sales job.

So the least of the villains here are the charities.
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