Ideas

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It's not that anyone can't afford a penny a year; it's that they may not want to support whatever you're funding. Economically, it's only a penny, which is nothing. Philosophically, why would I give that penny to some company? I already give much more than that to various charities, but I choose which ones. If I disagree with the single person or company you choose, I'll save my penny.

Also, collecting 52 cents from people could quite conceivably cost more than 52 cents. Transaction fees, organization fees, legal fees .. you're going to need to account for a lot of overhead.

I love the idea!
Maybe there can be a competitions with top ten prizes for ideas for companies and or charity companies.

I share the idea of Laura. The cost of management and fundraising, would exceed the total collection

Hi,

This is not exactly a new idea. In Europe Religious /Charitable Orders have been placing "Poor Boxes" in Shops, Bars, Schools etc in order to collect Pennies for Charity. This works well when the administration is done on a voluntary basis.

However as "Laura" correctly states, administration costs can be very heavy if it is managed by a commercial group. For instance there was a large scandal in the USA about 30 years ago. A religious Order turned the administration of their "Collections" over to a professional group. The group kept 95% of the funds collected for Administration and Salaries.

Meanwhile the cost for collecting this one penny worth of tax and it is a tax. Is costing you money.

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Could be a good idea, but it's like Micco is saying.

This is not feasible in its present form. Reason? Micco was spot on.

huhumm.. i remember a pocket book about kidnapping a Pope with a ramson of $! per catholic... thats at least $400m!

Isnt your idea of the same feather disguise under Philatrophic call?

By the way..i will glady give 1$(or cambros) for keeping the Pope or George Bush somewhere to restore world order lolz.

And who decides where the money goes?

The problem is that not everybody would pay. Of course, is just a idea. Good one!

They all ready have a tax system.