edit: you should also know that you should just donate directly to the charity, but I thought that was common knowledge
Apparently the idea that it gives corporations a tax break is a misconception, rather, YOU get the tax break! edit: yes you have to have receipts, thought that was common knowledge and didn’t think i needed a disclaimer
Thanks to @TheRealKuni@piefed.social, @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works, and @Zorcron@piefed.zip for that info!
edit: sorry for posting this, leaving it up so it’s not a “dirty delete”
Does it matter if they don’t get a tax break? They’re still generally billion dollar companies.
In my town there’s mostly Safeways, which are owned by Albertsons, which is owned by Cerberus Capital Management, which has something like $65 billion in assets and a net worth of $3 billion. I don’t give a flying fuck if they don’t get a tax break, they could just make the fucking donations on behalf of their fucking customers since they have so much god damned money.
EDIT: Albertsons gets 34 million weekly customers. That’s around 1.7 billion yearly customers. They could make a dollar donation for every customer for a year and still be worth 1.3 billion.
One could even consider it good news that the company doesn’t get a tax break from money donated by the customer.
yeah, this is what i was going for
i’m not here to defend billionaires. i’m chronically ill and probably going to die young, suffering, and in poverty. if billionaires did the right thing, not only would i probably be suffering a lot less, but so would a lot of people. we’d probably have a better world.
but here we are. :(