I’d actually be all for eliminating the charitable tax deduction as part of a broader tax simplification, but Obama is pulling it out of thin air when he says that there’s no reason to believe eliminating the deduction would affect charitable giving, as charities fear. The real debate is over whether the federal government should use the tax code as a way to manipulate social behavior as opposed to merely to raise revenue.
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