[PaulS]

Originally Posted by spence

This was studied by political scientists at MIT a few years back and they found charitable donations were about the same but the motivations were different.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=2148033

I've discussed this a few times and don't bother any more. I know that my own personal donations consist of about 30-40% going to my church. We have a gorious hall and are building a gym.