Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

Instead of allowing tax payers to deduct their charitable donations from income Why don't we allow taxpayers to deduct such giving from their tax obligation (with a cap of course)? #mepolitics Give $10 to your church or Red Cross or @MainePublic? Take $10 directly off tax you owe

That would be a much larger cost to the budget unless we are specifically trying to increase incentives for donations...

...which would likely come at the cost of other needed programs.

Or perhaps we buy one less aircraft carrier For sure it would allow regular people to have a direct say in how their tax dollars are spent Even if the means is indirect