LogFAQs > #979151623

Lokarin posted...

hey, wait... ya!

I like the round up cuz it's easy, but why should I donate to charity via someone else when I can do it myself?

Eeyup. All of those "Would you like to donate $X to this charity?" prompts are just a way for corporations to make donations for tax breaks with your money instead of their own. If you want to be charitable, just do it yourself directly and let the billionaires pay for their own tax breaks (or even just pay their taxes).

It's even more egregious when it's something like Tim's running their own charities: They get all the tax breaks, but can keep a chunk of the donation for themselves as "administrative costs."