How does this make sense?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

This money is supposed to fund health care reform.

If the important thing were truely the giving, then changing the percentage of charitable donations people who earn over $250,000 per year can deduct from 35% to 28% wouldn't decrease their giving at all.

But apparently the important thing for these folks isn't the giving, it's indeed the amount of tax deduction one gets from giving.

Don't worry, this one won't pass in the fall.

So we are going to in effect take money from charity to pay for health care reform?

The truly important thing is to fund the charities, reasoning behind it should be irrelevant. Only the naive would believe that this wouldn't reduce the amount of money going to charity.