Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand Giridharadas)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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You Don't Get a Tax Deduction for Buying the Naming Rights on a Stadium
You don't get a tax deduction for buying the naming rights on a stadium. If you're a meddler and you insist on using the gift to exert more and more power over society, not ouself out no tax deduction. You are buying the right when a lot of older people don't have necessary lots to do after they've made all their money. There in their sixties or seventies, they love these board meetings. They love having these young women call them and give them up dates. And we need more of a check to make sure that these gifts that the public is helping subsidize are actually public spirited.
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