And that, my friends, is a very unpopular opinion in my neck of woods.
Heh, I was having a discussion with my sister about taxes and she went 'what, you want to pay MORE taxes?' expecting me to say 'no not myself', and I said 'yes, yes I do. i should at my income level'. End of conversation I seemed to have grown a second head or something.
I had a kind of comparable conversation with my mum. Me and the missus paid of our mortgage, have 12 solar panels but that's still not enough for our full-electric houshold.
To mitigate our electric cost further we bought shares in a wind-farm and our net expenses on electric (including tax) were -600 or something last year because of a long running contract for electric while everyone around us was getting higher prices because of the world-wide gas-price going through the roof.
I know a colleague of mine has a charity to give a big group of minimum income families a christmas food package. Not the high and mighty stuff that's expensive but not very useful but the actual useful stuff. I donated a big part of my return to his charity.
I also learned that someone who I sold a tablet with a defective battery to, that he was autistic and in a program to get work experience with very little income. I gifted him the tablet and told him to do his best and let me know if he needs some more stuff to work or practice on.
I'm also supporting non-profits that support parents with children with Down's syndrome (because of our youngest), autistic people in general (because I'm autistic and so is my eldest), emotional support dogs for disabled people.
And at the end of the day I see I can get a big chunk of what I paid to alllll of those back from income tax. So I file my income tax and get a chunk back and use that to support the charities more next year. Life is strange sometimes...