Well, after you pay income tax on your earnings, turn around and pay sales tax on the things you purchase, and then end up having to pay death tax on what you have left, screw the government. It’s nice to be able to give to charity and take the deduction - which is what the charitable deduction is designed for. If you think it’s a bad or immoral thing to receive a benefit (not being taxed) on items you’re giving away, then so be it.
Rather a stretch at the end there. All I said was that if the government is willing to strong-arm the citizenry for doing good (and not being able to prove that's what was done to the government's satisfaction), then the simply solution is simply to give without requiring any satisfaction in return. This is perfect Christian charity.
That said, for the government to basically assume, despite clear proof, that the giver is lying, and then to exert the strong-arm is, for me, evidence of tyranny and begins to raise other issues, such as what I might consider doing to remove such persons from any position of power. At the moment, I am basically resolved to vote against any Democrat on principle and seriously scan the bona fides of any Republican before I opt for them. The presumption in my mind will be that anyone seeking power in the USA is doing so in order to support fascist control of a rich and plunderable population. I will vote against that.
There are further options, of course.