{"id":14786,"date":"2024-09-07T23:44:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2024-09-07T23:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T13:47:02","slug":"charity-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/charity-for-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity for the rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Editor\u2019s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our Publishing Guidelines.\nDear Editor,\nRegarding the Productivity Commission\u2019s report on charities and schools, I\u2019ve just been reading Rob Reich\u2019s book, Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better, on philanthropic foundations.\nOne of the issues he discusses is whether \u201ccharity\u201d involves transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor, and found only a small percentage of it did that. Most of it was transfer from wealthy donors to wealthy recipients favoured by the upper classes, such as private schools and art galleries and universities.\nIn the book, he provides a list of 15 large foundations in his home state of California, and where their money goes. Some of it funds individual wealthy schools.\u00a0\nTransfers from the rich to the rich does not satisfy the usual definition of \u201dcharity\u201d. But they all bring the same tax benefit to donors, whether they are really \u201ccharities\u201d or just supporting wealthy institutions.\nReich recommends radical change to tax concessions for donors.\nRobert Bender\n&nbsp;\nGod saved Donald\nDear Editor,\nTrump is grazed by a bullet; someone else is killed \u2013 god saved Donald! (RSA Weekly, 16 August 2024).\u00a0\nSame mentality as, \"I just knew I shouldn't get on that airplane, and it crashed killing 300 children, women and men. Thank god.\"\u00a0\nThe stupidity of this mentality is staggering, and seems to be true fo...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <hr style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 1000px !important;height: 5px;border-width: 0;color: red;background-color: red\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h3><em>You're part way through this article. 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