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”
I don’t give a fuck about a tax break or not. They are the multi million, billion, dollar company. Fuck your profits and you donate.
It’s like tipping. Pay your employees.
They do donate.
And that’s great! But to the poster’s point, don’t worry about coercing the customer to.
It’s not coercement. It’s literally a hey do you want to help out this organization. Most normal people don’t have a way and don’t know a way to actually donate. This is a way for normal people to provide donations for organizations that we feel could use them. And yes these organizations do actually get the donations. For example The Smiths here in town or Kroger as they’re known Nationwide donates to the primary children’s hospital all the time. Yes I do provide them a direct check and they do usually a matching dollar for dollar for everything that’s donated so if 50,000 people donate a dollar each the company will donate an extra $50,000 on top of that. I see nothing wrong with that and you shouldn’t see anything wrong with that either.