re: #14 ReamWorks SKG

People here won’t like this, but it makes sense. We’ve cut back on our pledges for 2013, because of CA Prop 30 which raises our state tax alone by $14,000. (In particular, we stopped “sponsoring a week” at our Community Food Bank.)

Taxing “the rich” alone won’t solve our budget crisis. All the temporary tax cuts should have expired, and spending should have been trimmed. Cutting back charitable deductions—especially now that they’re more expensive—is a reasonable way of protesting the inequity.

That would be cutting off our nose to spite our face. Raising taxes on the middle class right now would be economic suicide.

The rich got the biggest portion of the Bush Tax cuts and it is totally appropriate for those to expire now.