My overseer at the Going Concern blog airily dismisses our, er, griping about the unwisdom of a special tax deduction for Haiti relief. Peter Pappas points out that the proposal, which would permit deduction on 2009 returns for contributions made this year, practically begs for double-dipping:
In other words, taxpayers will take their Haiti charitable contributions twice: Once on their 2009 tax return under the new law and then again on their 2010 tax returns because that
