I’ve seen large corporations brag about donating large sums of money to charity.
Are donations collected at checkout (E.G Checking out at Publix and the cashier asks “Would you like to donate to cancer research?”) included in those sums?
Are donations collected used for tax benefits of the corporation?
In: Economics
the issue people are not pointing out is that you dont know what charity that money is going towards.
it could go towards a charity entirely focussed around helping billionairs fund their third familys fourth yacht or that charity spends so much of its donations on its staff that barely anything actually goes towards its cause.
there’s some charities out there that for every dollar donated 98 cents goes directly towards what the chairty is working for. some have as low as 1cent per dollar and are effectively ways of funnelling money from one source to another.
its the reason I support a few specific charities and I dont support any more. because those charities do things I feel are good and actually spent their cash on those things.
its like…do McDonalds really need me to donate so they can help house people who’s kids have bad illnesses or can their fucking bottom line loose a percentage point and achive that same thing. (for what its worth I do like what the Mcdonalds charities do I just feel that a company that makes as much as they do can stand to spend some of that money doing the right thing instead of demanding I spend my own far more limited funds)
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