[acoulterfan]

Typical CONVOLUTED response from Obama (from transcript):

QUESTION: — are you confident that charities are wrong when they contend that this would discourage giving?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yes. I am. I mean, if you look at the evidence — there’s very little evidence that this has a significant impact on charitable giving. I’ll tell you what has a significant impact on charitable giving is a financial crisis and an economy that’s contracting. And so the most important thing that I can do for charitable giving is to fix the economy, to get banks lending again, to get businesses opening their doors again, to get people back to work again. Then I think charities will do just fine.

[TeleStraightShooter]

???
He states the economy is taking a chunk out of charitable giving so he wants to take a another chunk to create jobs that will not last so people can give more to charities?

Is he nuts or is totally clueless?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I guess he doesn’t think significantly cutting executive compensation will have as large or larger impact on charitable giving as cutting out the deduction?