• Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yes, a good chunk of the American tax income goes to pretty bad stuff, but A. not all of us are American, and B. not all of that tax goes to bad stuff

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      10 months ago

      Charitable donations are tax deductible, your goal should be to spend your entire tax return on charity so your tax is at worst an interest free loan to the government and at best it might actually do some good in the world.

      • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        Fuck no, charity sucks for many things.

        Let’s take the duty of a state, such as caring for its citizens and divide it up amongst 1000s of little groups each with highly paid CEOs, CFOs, and COOs and huge costs spent on advertising and fundraising! Oh and you get zero democratic say in these organisations or how they’re run.

        I’d rather see my money going towards healthcare, education, social services, etc.