Sunday Jewish Political Update 10/9/2011

Charities Will Suffer Due to Dems/Obama Jobs Plan, according to the Boston Herald referred by www.HotAir.com. A limit on deducting charitable contributions in the tax papers will be placed on “Individuals earning over $200,000 or couples earning more than $250,000… According to Internal Revenue Service figures… Households reporting $200,000 or more in annual income [in 2009] claimed $19.14 billion [charitable deductions]… A 5 percent reduction in charitable giving by those claiming a tax deduction in 2009 would have reduced total contributions by $957 million. A 20 percent drop in giving would have reduced charitable contributions by $3.8 billion.”

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Cain, Bachmann decline to say Romney is a Christian, reports the Washington Post. In other words, they indirectly agree with Poster Robert Jeffers who made this claim on Friday. Personally, I am not familiar with all religions and what belong to whom. As long a religion does not cause mayhem and destruction to civilization, I would say – anecdotally – that few Jewish Voters care what religion a candidate practices. Heck, look what happened to the Orthodox Jewish David Weprin in NY9…

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    About the charities, old news. By the way this would hurt jobs,and it’s in a jobs plan.