Will the anti-Corporation people acknowledge Corp. charity?

Question

The "big box" stores and other corporations are donating generously to the Ca. fire efforts, as they did during the Tsunami and Katrina.

Since they are bashed regularly about their profits, I just wanted to thank them for helping in times of need.

I haven't heard of any "labor unions" doing anything.

And while we're thanking people for giving of themselves, I also want to thank the Marine Corps "toys for tots", The ACLU doesn't give anything. The Code Pink ladies who protest against the military should be taking over that job since they don't want a military.

Answer 1

To be clear about this, I am as pro - business as is humanly possible, but there are a few misconceptions that we need to clear up right now.

Businesses do NOT repeat do NOT donate to charity. They do NOT repeat do NOT pay taxes. They collect from the consumer for charities and they collect from the consumer to pass on to the government any taxes demanded of them.

Businesses are NOT going to lose money. Their shareholders expect the business to be profitable. Whatever charitable donations are made by a business, you can rest assured that the costs are passed on.

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Answer 2

Anti-corporation people must stand by their belief and should not receive any corporate donation.  They should conduct fund raising projects of their own to protect their integrity.

Answer 3

Corporations do donate money.  It typically pales to what they even spend on office supplies, however you are right about them not even having to do that.

The problem is that their exposure to scandals, self-serving agendas, executive abuses of power, stories of ruining the lives of loyal workers for extreme greed just overshadows local PR efforts.

To over simplify, it takes alot more then handing out of bottles of water to make people forget about Enron, S&L scandal, the E.com bust, and subprime mortage foreclosures.

Answer 4

I live in an area with a very strong union. Local 226 of the Culinary Union. A few years ago, two members of that union lost four children to smoke inhalation in a fire. The folks in the Las Vegas area reached into their wallets and purses to donate almost a quarter of a million dollars to the parents. The union sent flowers to the funeral.

My father helped create a union. The Seafarers' International Union. Were he alive when those children died (and seen the reaction of that union) I would have to stop him from horse-whipping everyone in the leadership of that local!

Answer 5

I remember walking through Safeways during Christmas and in between the elevator music they announced how Safeways had given away a million shoeboxes of stuff to needy african people, and I remembered that Charity is supposed to be, SUPPOSED TO BE, anonymous.  So did Safeway give a shoebox full of love to a starving child out of the goodness of their hearts, or did they want you to come back during one of their super sales of already overpriced, overpackaged, overprocessed foodstuff.   So take your little question and put it in a shoebox.

Answer 6

How ill informed can a person be, I was a union official, and I can tell you that the unions are the first to organize food drives, clothing drives, collect money for the victims, and do whatever they can possibly do to help out.

Answer 7

I'm not anti corp, but anti corp lobbyists, and anti corp war profiteering.

remember one news story on ABC or NBC or CBS about the charity to them, is actually worth more to them then what they spend on the relief.

they are aware of all the pluses and minuses they do