{"id":6500,"date":"2010-06-10T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2010-06-10T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:33:09","slug":"my-personal-charitable-giving-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/my-personal-charitable-giving-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"My Personal Charitable Giving Is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TaxProf <a href=\"http:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2010\/06\/charitable-giving.html\" target=\"_blank\">points out<\/a> that charitable giving dropped last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University today announced today that charitable contributions fell 3.6% (3.2% inflation-adjusted) in 2009, to $303.75 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally speaking, my charitable contributions have dropped slightly (although not 3.6%, probably) as I have redirected small checks from charitable organizations to Republican candidates and the RNC and its committees.<\/p>\n<p>Because if I&#8217;m going to have any to spare for donations in the future, the government is going to have to change.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/100908\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TaxProf points out that charitable giving dropped last year: Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University today announced today that charitable contributions fell 3.6% (3.2% inflation-adjusted) in 2009, to $303.75 billion. Personally speaking, my charitable contributions have dropped slightly (although not 3.6%, probably) as I have redirected small checks from charitable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6503,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions\/6503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}