Yale Professors Create Website For Tax Cut Givebacks

A group of Yale Law School professors is urging people to figure out what they’ll save from the recently approved tax cut deal, and donate the difference to charity.

They’ve created a website called “GiveItBackForJobs.com”, where there’s a tax cut calculator. Visitors can estimate what their tax cut will be, then donate it to a charity that supports jobs, housing or healthcare, or to a charity of their choice.

Yale Law Professor Daniel Markovitz is one of the site’s founders. "The idea was to try to find a way for citizens to tie their giving to a just politics in order to help those who are less fortunate but also to send a signal that they’re doing this ‘cause they think this is what a democratic citizenship should be doing."

Markovitz says parts of the tax cut deal are fair, like the payroll tax holiday for middle class workers, but he opposes the tax cuts that were allowed to continue for the wealthiest Americans.