robust charitable giving should also include a tax deduction as per the constructs of the law.
Plus, people who are particularly focused on charitable giving will do even more than what the standard deduction would allow.
my charitable giving is in terms of cash, and why wouldn’t someone want to capture all of that for a tax deduction.
unless of course, your charitable giving is so anemic that it wouldn’t qualify for itemization anyhow, due to not exceeding the standard deduction limit.
that’s not the case for me and many others who are committed to supporting our charities robustly. Not just with secondhand clothing as you presume.
I would encourage you to give more robustly to organizations making an impact (to the point where it exceeds the standard deduction) and then come back and tell us that you don’t want to leverage the legal right to a tax deduction.
