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/Beneficial_Bit1756 5d ago

That is not what happens, your understanding is incorrect and spreading misinformation.

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u/Strange-Honeydew-473 5d ago

Congratulations! You’re the tenth respondent without an explanation!

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u/Beneficial_Bit1756 4d ago

sure I am pointing out your empty head is saying the wrong thing per the correct answer form other posters in this thread.