{"id":2728,"date":"2010-01-08T04:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T09:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2010-01-08T04:25:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T09:25:19","slug":"repostmarginal-revolution-the-charity-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/repostmarginal-revolution-the-charity-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Marginal Revolution: The charity tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The charity <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax\">tax<\/a><br \/>\nThe estimated social pressure cost of saying no to a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Solicitor\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solicitor\">solicitor<\/a> is $3.5 for an in-state charity and $1.4 for an out-of-state charity. Our <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Welfare\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welfare\">welfare<\/a> calculations suggest that our door-to-door <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fundraising\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fundraising\">fund-raising<\/a> campaigns on average lower utility of the potential donors.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/01\/the-charity-tax.html\">Marginal Revolution: The charity tax<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We hate not doing\/giving, but we don&#8217;t have enough resources to be very generous. This produces guilt. This guilt lowers our self-image. I think this is the mechanism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/d668fb98-1377-4c39-87ac-4098798db89c\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charity tax The estimated social pressure cost of saying no to a solicitor is $3.5 for an in-state charity and $1.4 for an out-of-state charity. Our welfare calculations suggest that our door-to-door fund-raising campaigns on average lower utility of the potential donors. via Marginal Revolution: The charity tax. We hate not doing\/giving, but we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/repostmarginal-revolution-the-charity-tax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Marginal Revolution: The charity tax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[276,470,606,1124,1311,1365,1366,1507],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","tag-business","tag-economic","tag-fundraising","tag-poverty","tag-solicitor","tag-tax","tag-taxation","tag-welfare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}