I obviously disagree on many of your points but I’ll bet if we had the opportunity you’d find were way more aligned than you think. I give a tremendous amount to charity and would happily give more if the tax structure was different. If deductions are eliminated then the base tax rates would be reduced (but everyone would pay something) and people would have significantly more money to donate to the causes that they personally support…not the causes the government has deemed as somehow better than others, after they’ve siphoned off a fortune to no name government cubicle workers.