Thanksgiving coming; car giveaway poll

[fflo]

Well, I'm gonna be a straggler this year, for the first time. Will be spending Thanksgiving in some place call She-boy-gun. Yeah, it's a strange name, isn't it?

I've just found out that this calendar year, 2004, is the last for simple tax-deduction car donating---starting next year, cuzza something buried in the Giant Tax Breaks for Corporations bill, people will be generally be able to deduct less for their donated cars, and in many cases won't know until after the donation how much it will be worth. Charitable groups are pretty upset; asked what she thought about the new law, a spokesperson for Goodwill is quoted in this article in Motortrend as saying, "You mean how Congress is using the homeless and hungry to pay for corporate tax breaks?"

Anyway, I'm contemplating donating the Jeep instead of selling it as is or getting the steering fixed in order to sell it. Gotta do a little number-crunching first. If I do decide to donate it, to whom should the donation go?

[Poll #389853]

Whitman-Walker's a great clinic in DC (serving the GLBT community). SMYAL's a queer youth group. CORE is the long-time civil rights organization. WEAVE us "Women Escaping A Violent Environment"---cheesy acronym, but a national group of 25+ years now.

I nearly died of SIDS myself.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

You put the wildlife one in for me, didn't you? Cool idea to donate the Jeep regardless of who you give it to. I still have hopes of turning ours into a psychedelic flower bed. This being VT and all, we are required to have an old car somewhere on the property (whenever we do buy again). This place has a bus and a car with a tree growing out of it.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of the vehicle-as-planter.

Wildlife charity actually tends to remind me these days of my other friend from Omaha (coworker), as she talks of those issues and her interest in them a lot. My tendency, unlike disclaimerwill's, is to think of charities benefitting humans and issues of injustice as most worthy. But I do like to root for the underdog, and wildlife is certainly an underdog on the planet, thanks to our dominance.

Hey, now that I think of it, your old Jeep being reclaimed/taken over by flora and fauna is a nice symbolic statement of a sort.

[groovesinorbit]

Injustice and human rights are important, but I go with wildlife and wild lands first usually. You know, people are fine ... ; )

Hey, now that I think of it, your old Jeep being reclaimed/taken over by flora and fauna is a nice symbolic statement of a sort.

Yep!