Income tax deadline: time to consider our giving

Income tax deadline: time to consider our giving: "How much did you give to charity in 2006? The only good thing one can say for our absurdly complex tax code is that it forces us, or those of us who itemize our deductions, to prepare a personal balance sheet that tells us, among a number of things which only the IRS could find interesting, how much we made and how much we gave away the previous year. Which leads to the next question: Was it enough?"