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[bronsin]

Originally Posted by goliath1812

I hate cancer, and yes it should of course be beaten by now with all of the fundraising. I don't believe that much of the money raised even goes towards finding a cure though, I believe most of it goes towards advertising and making more (newer) drugs to sell back to the patients. Unfortunately.

And to paying peoples salaries for doing those things....

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

And to paying peoples salaries for doing those things....

....somewhat along this same vein.....I don't like it when CVS, Safeway, etc are soliciting customers for charitable donations. They don't do it out of any altruism (at least Safeway doesn't,as they have had conflicts with unions over this). They do it because they take the tax deduction, a revenue driver for them. Sometimes when I say no, I explain that if I'm going to make a donation, I want undisputed rights to the tax deduction. I've actually had a few cashiers tell me that I can take the tax deduction. When I tell them that the IRS doesn't allow the same deduction to be claimed twice and that I don't want any conflict, I usually get a look that tells me I might as well be speaking Hungarian or Finnish I especially don't like an electronic record (that can be sold) of my 'saying' no to the donation.