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Congress should resist President Obama's proposal to reduce the taxdeduction rate on charitable gifts from high-income earners.

President Barack Obama's proposal to raise taxes and reducecharitable deductions for the wealthy mistakenly suggests thatgovernment bureaucracy can deploy citizens' resources moreeffectively than nonprofit civil society organizations can. Itmoves the dial of social responsibility one more notch in thedirection of the state at the expense of local institutions thatserve the poor more personally and efficiently.

News or exposed to at least some of it, we dont yet know how they were able to process all this testimony. i dont think theres been polling thats been able to capture, you know, just the events of the last couple of days yet. and part of the problem is that there used to be institutions, mediating institutions whose job it was to try to explain the truth to people who dont have time to watch 24 hours of congressional testimony. and, you know, trust in those institutions has collapsed. and meanwh...