Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I will read to you the provisions of this legislation on what the money is expended for. No. 1, it talks about $2.6 billion of this legislation is a nonitemized or charitable deduction. It is not for religious organizations. It allows people who fill out the short form to deduct charitable contributions. No. 2, IRA charitable rollovers. What it says is people who have an IRA can roll over that IRA into a charitable organization, qualified under 501(c)(3) or other, whatever organizations would be eligible, and that is $2.9 billion over the next 10 years--again, nothing to do with faith-based organizations; no direct government dollars to anybody. Third has to do with enhancing charitable deductions for farmers, restaurateurs, and businesses for food donations. Again, it has nothing to do with charitable choice, nothing to do with any kind of government funds going to charitable organizations. Fourth, we have enhanced charitable deductions for book donations--again, nothing to do with charitable choice. Incentives for S corporations to give more money to charities--again, nothing to do with faith-based organizations.”