Donation levels by HHI

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Anonymous wrote:My parents made just over $1m last year and donated a few hundred dollars. They think paying 6 figures in taxes is enough.

I agree for the most part. I do donate to immigrants just coming to this country and to food insecurity charities. I think most charities are scams.

That's what stingy people say to justify being stingy even though they have the money. Meanwhile charities and NGOs are keeping kids from starving and the sick from dying (without any help from rich stingy people like you.)

Why don't you just earn more money and solve the problem? No sick person will ever die because of you and we can erect a monument.

What problem do you think could be solved and how much money would that take? If I could make the money of Jeff Bezos and give it away to good causes I would. But those who don't give money away to others because they think charities are scams or because the poor are underserving are lazy and selfish people who want to live in their McMansions unperturbed by the thoughts that there are needy people out there suffering.

It sounds like you also wouldn't donate money if you were rich because you also cannot see what problems your money can solve. It's very easy to complain on the internet that rich people are greedy without providing any real solution.

I was trying to make you realize that it was stupid to think that a single person could solve all of society's ills but apparently that went straight over your head. Good luck to you and enjoy counting your wealth while children starve.

[Anonymous]

$300k and about $10,000 including mostly various school donations and a little family support.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents made just over $1m last year and donated a few hundred dollars. They think paying 6 figures in taxes is enough.

I agree for the most part. I do donate to immigrants just coming to this country and to food insecurity charities. I think most charities are scams.

That's what stingy people say to justify being stingy even though they have the money. Meanwhile charities and NGOs are keeping kids from starving and the sick from dying (without any help from rich stingy people like you.)

Why don't you just earn more money and solve the problem? No sick person will ever die because of you and we can erect a monument.

What problem do you think could be solved and how much money would that take? If I could make the money of Jeff Bezos and give it away to good causes I would. But those who don't give money away to others because they think charities are scams or because the poor are underserving are lazy and selfish people who want to live in their McMansions unperturbed by the thoughts that there are needy people out there suffering.

How much do you give?

[Anonymous]

Thanks to all who offered their thoughts.

We earned 230k last year and donated 1k total. Our income rose this year to 265k and next year it will be 350k.

Lots of food for thought. We pay a lot in taxes and are saving up to buy a house that we can afford so giving isn’t our #1 priority but we do give some to church/school.

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400k hhi, about 1k donated. Plan to donate more when we don’t have daycare expenses.

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Anonymous wrote:700k

7k

My charity is the 6k/mo in daycare bills

You should be paying 20k a month if you wanted to pay a living wage to those workers

yes, that is the solution! Let's prohibit anyone from ever having kids.

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Aim for a pct, we do about 15%, 10 to church and 5 to others

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Pp here, about 300k

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Many of you are telling yourself stories not to realize how selfish you are.

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I don’t consider my taxes to be a charitable donation (I wouldn’t choose to donate to, say, defense contractors, for instance), and I have a hard time agreeing with that perspective. We gave about $13,000 to charity last year on income of about $330k, so it’s less than I feel like we should be able to give.

The good news for those of you who grumble about taxes is that the more you give to charity, the more you can reduce your taxable income!

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t consider my taxes to be a charitable donation (I wouldn’t choose to donate to, say, defense contractors, for instance), and I have a hard time agreeing with that perspective. We gave about $13,000 to charity last year on income of about $330k, so it’s less than I feel like we should be able to give.

The good news for those of you who grumble about taxes is that the more you give to charity, the more you can reduce your taxable income!

Have seen some people talking about time, too. I also spent a lot of time volunteering for my kids’ activities, most of which are run by nonprofit groups, but I also wouldn’t consider that to take the place of giving actual money — for one thing, my kids are beneficiaries of it, so it’s not exactly selfless, and for another, my leisure time is sort of not such a valuable commodity that I feel like I should account for it as if it were cash.

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I don't totally disagree with you . . . but my time IS worth something. And I feel like I'm making a bigger difference in the world by being a girl scout leader than by donating 10k to the ACLU.

I do think tithing to a church is bananas.

[Anonymous]

HHI $250k
Donations: $12,500 give or take
We aim for 5%

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Anonymous wrote:I don't totally disagree with you . . . but my time IS worth something. And I feel like I'm making a bigger difference in the world by being a girl scout leader than by donating 10k to the ACLU.

I do think tithing to a church is bananas.

Agree. I’ve always been grateful to be baptized in a church that isn’t fundamentalist.

I give to the church but I do not tithe.

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HHI is $400k. We don't really donate. We'll throw $25 here and there to friends running charity races or PTO events. That's about it. No guilt at all.