The DVNF Charity has been investigated by CNN. The charity is ostensibly to provide to veterans and disabled veterans, but CNN's near 2 year investigation has not been able to find any legitimate charitable gifts / money given to that cause by this ostensible charity.
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...Here's a pretty picture (pie chart) showing the breakdown of tax deductable charitable contributions by type of recipiant organization. Notably, the largest giving occurs by far to religious groups... fully 1/3rd of all charitable donations go to religion.
Now why do I get the impression that 1st Amendment ...
A bit more about my opposition to tax policy regards charities, this time related to it's regressive nature. Data published by the IRS shows the non-cash contributions by income group and donation catagory. This illustrates very clearly that the higher income catagories benefit by far the most in terms of deductions for ...
I have several reasons for not contributing to the charity, most related to my general and vehement opposition to charities of almost any kind in the first place... and most specifically those related to religous and/or health related charities. Another reason though is that I am a firm believer in a person's free choice and ...