Taxing Charity to Fund the Big Government Obama Healthcare Plan
The Obama healthcare plan shows a fundamental shift in faith
from the public to the private sector.   By Mary Kate Cary,
Thomas Jefferson Street blog  There's been a huge debate lately
about the size and scope of government. The lines between the
two sides are most clearly drawn around the Obama
administration's proposal to fund about half of the $634 billion
reserve fund for health care reform by reducing the itemized
deductions that taxpayers in higher brackets can take for things
like donations to charity. Dan Politi writes a great analysis of
the fund at  The Chronicle of Philanthropy also has a
comprehensive article which illustrates the deduction reduction
with this example: if you make more than $250,000 a year, and
you were to give a charity a gift of $100,000, you would save
$28,000 on your taxes under the Obama proposal, rather than the
$35,000 you save now. Experts at the Indiana University Center
on Philanthropy estimate it could cau