When you make a charitable donation you are able to claim it on your taxes and you receive a deduction.
This would obviously be a benefit and urge some people to donate more, but to me I feel it defeats the purpose of "charity." I always thought of charity as a give something for nothing [...]
I have pre-tax medical and retirement taken out but when I calculate out how much of my total gross I take home, the percentages indicate the taxes are being calculated on total earnings, not the total after pre-tax deductions. I thought that was the benefit of pre-tax deductions – you didn’t get taxed on [...]