Jared Bernstein
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And, you know, that's how democracy works.
So I don't like the idea of leaving it to the kindness of stranger trillionaires to make up the difference.
I think that's why we have taxes.
Charitable deduction.
Yeah.
So this will be so it's a deduction that you deducted at your your time.
Correct.
That's a great point.
I mean, and, you know, I don't.
Yeah, it's a lot of savings there for them.
And look, you know, a lot of people have come after the charitable deduction as a way to raise more revenue.
And it never really seems to get anywhere.
You know, maybe for good reason.
I mean, it's a lot of.
I definitely remember trying to do so.
Okay.
And it never happened.
I didn't think we got there, but I could be misremembering.
Whenever we used to have revenue meetings, which we had all the time, because we were desperately new and more, somebody would say, can we move that?
And you know, the next meeting higher up would come the answer.