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On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:34:47 PM UTC-6, graham wrote:
> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> > There are a lot of worthy charities to which I contribute but it seems

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> > that the requests for money tend to come earlier and earlier each year.

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> > This amounts to a sneaky attempt to get a larger annual contribution. I

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> > wonder if they realize that if I put the requests aside I will probably

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> > forget them completely.

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> What annoys me is that once I give to a charity, it then pesters me to give
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> every few weeks after that. I gave to one charity last year, and it e-mailed
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> me *the following day* asking me to give again.


Low income tax schemes in countries where the population is deluded by
supply-side nonsense rely on inefficient fund raising charities. That's
sad. Gross inequity has never been demonstrated to be correlated with
prosperity and happiness.
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> Graham


--Bryan