captain_spalding said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

captain_spalding said:

No, not at all. If good causes get the money they need, wonderful.

I’m saying the donors get the kudos, and eventually, someone else gets the bill.

Coles regularly asks me to donate to this charity or that charity. They ask lots and lots of people. And they get lots and lots of donations. Which they eventually bundle together, and present to the charity in the form of a donation ‘by Coles’.

They get the kudos, someone else paid for it.

Last Fin Yr, Coles made $1.9 billion declared profit, up from the previous year.

Me, i’m using a staff family discount card to save $5 on a $100 shopping load.

How about you make the donation from your funds, Coles?

Totally different situation and completely irrelevant.

No, two aspects of the same thing.

It’s easy to be generous, when you can get it back by other means, or you’re not using your money at all.

I agree, it achieves some good. It just doesn’t work quite the way that the news-bites present it.

But the point is, you don’t get it back. You get back the tax you would have paid on that money if you hadn’t given it away.