What Kind of President Seeks to Effectively Tax Charitable Contributions?

Those of us who disagree with Obama need to break through apolitical Americans' general sense of "he's a good guy, I trust him, I'm not going to look too closely at what he's doing."

I suspect his proposal to lower the deductions on charitable contributions is a good example of talk differing from action. By lowering the deduction, Obama is effectively raising taxes on donations to charity.

Of all the places to raise taxes, why here? Why does Obama want the government to take more from those who donate to good causes? Can he really believe that the government should be punishing those who make these donations?

[A: by reducing charitable giving the have-nots will have less, thereby strengthening the class-warfare arguments on which he depends.]

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