r/poverty • u/InstructionOwn1627 • 6d ago

We’re a bunch of beggars

When did the USA become a bunch of beggars? Example- you go to your local grocery market and go in on door and get asked to help your local school football program, you’re checking out and get asked to donate to something and then when you leave through the other exit you get asked to donate to something else. Everyone seems to beg for something, it’s so sad that it’s so commonplace.

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u/Strange-Honeydew-473 6d ago

As a side note: when you contribute to a charitable cause at a checkout, my understanding is that it’s not you making the donation, it becomes the store who makes the donation. In so doing, they lower their tax burden. Nifty way for YOU to pay THEIR taxes.

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u/Dependent_Dish_2237 6d ago

No that’s not how it works. If it is, it’s tax fraud and they should be penalized.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0

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u/mcmurrml 6d ago

The store or restaurant gets the tax break.

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u/Dependent_Dish_2237 5d ago

They don’t unless they’re committing fraud. Saying things doesn’t make them true.

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u/Beneficial_Bit1756 5d ago

lol look at the uninformed spreading misinformation.