Charities and other nonprofit institutions perform a vast array of altruistic works yielding benefits for both the direct beneficiaries and for society writ large. Current proposals to change the favorable tax treatment of private giving, and larger proposals to reform the federal tax system, would have important effects on such giving and thus on the benefits that private charitable institutions yield.
The analytic case for public financial support for private giving is longstanding, comprising four basic observations:
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