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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
I had forgotten that the donations are also a writeoff against income.
If he can't afford 500 bucks a year, he should be looking for a new job. That's less than 100 beers. Does your cousin have 100 beers throughout the course of a year? I bet he could also work directly for the party in a paid position, and donate 100% of his pay and it would only be 56 hours of work at minimum wage. Less than a months worth of weekends.
The whole 'can't afford it' memo is really a misnomer.
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Again, typical Albertan thinking. "Just get another job!". That isn't very easy in most parts of the country. I get the impression that for many people they are living in this wonderland where everyone makes good money and if they don't they just didn't apply for the right job.
And no, my cousin doesn't drink alcohol. At all.
As for the tax credit, you have to pay now and get the money back a year from now. If you got the money back immediately, you might have a point. But my cousin has his dental and car problems NOW. That 79 year old shoveling driveways has to pay his electric bill NOW. Not a year from now.