Nonprofits fret over Obama’s plan to tax wealthy.

“We are generally supportive of health-care reform and working with the administration toward this goal, but I don’t see it as my job to find the money for this,” said William Daroff, UJC’s vice president for public policy and the director of its Washington office, which lobbies for hundreds of millions of dollars annually in federal money for social services.

“It is my job to say this is the wrong place to get it because you are hurting those you are attempting to help — average folks in need of the services of charities. Beyond that there are over 15 million people who work for nonprofits, and any decrease in contributions will exacerbate the tough times that many charities are already going through. In fact, many charities, and many federations, are already laying off people.”