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One charitable theory might be that its engineers got busy with other priorities and their managers forgot to follow up, and no reporters or activists reminded them about the problem again – until now.

A less charitable theory — one Spicer disputes — is that the White House is playing a passive-aggressive game: Not responding furthers Trump's effort to undermine the media by letting false assertions stand in news stories in order to decry them later.

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Or as Slate's economics correspondent Matthew Yglesias put it, "Wall Street has essentially granted Bezos the right to operate an extremely forward-looking charitable venture on the theory that at some future point it will acquire monopoly pricing power and start screwing us all".

As such, theories explaining charitable donating have focused on indirect or psychological benefits, such as establishing a favorable reputation (Nowark & Sigmund, 2005) or the "warm glow" people experience from doing something good or righting a perceived injustice (Andreoni, 1990; Mayo & Tinsley, 2009).

Besides saving the government money, the theory is that charitable status will make raising money easier.

This owes its impetus to a desire to read Plato as charitably as possible, and a belief that a charitable reading of Plato's works will minimise their dependence on the theory of Forms.

He has been making charitable contributions to nonprofits in the U.S. that promote conspiracy theories about President Obama's birthplace and the rising influence of Islam in American society.

Indeed, Gates would, the theory goes, enjoy a special windfall since he could deduct his charitable contribution from his ordinary income, which would be taxed at a 35% rate.

Markman says the overwhelming charitable response to disasters, like the one in Las Vegas, fits well with the psychological theory of terror management, which has been gaining acceptance for some two decades.

The charitable ways of Gates and Buffett also provide living proof that the "trickle-down theory" is in fact reality.

There might be a large number of charities that one might support in theory, but one assigns only a small proportion of one's budget to charitable contributions.

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