Spending millions on holiday shows and advertising instead of actually feeding and housing people is also disqualifying. (TikTok screencap)

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[–] 6 points 7 months ago

I used to think this too, and it's going around because it's excellent and plausible outrage bait.

...But as of now, that is not how it works. They are simply a collection point for the nonprofit / charity / whatever, and cannot use customers' donations to offset their own taxes.

I agree though, folks should just donate straight to good causes, but these "round up" campaigns actually generate a lot of money for charity organizations, and villainizing them is counter productive.

A few articles about this:

https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-false-claim-checkout-charities-offset-corporate-taxes/7622379002/

All that said: Yes, scumbag corpos should be strongarmed to pay their damn taxes, and those taxes should go to the public good instead of warships and corruption!

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