LA County Fire Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 2 prepares for possible deployment to Haiti at the California Task Force 2 warehouse in the Pacoima section of Los Angeles, on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the earthquake in Haiti and the resulting aid may lead to a “real boom economy” there.
Lawmakers say they plan to encourage more charitable donations by making them tax-deductible.
“I think that this can be an opportunity for a real boom economy in Haiti,” she told reporters in the Capitol, drawing from her experience in San Francisco. Haiti “can leap-frog over its past challenges, economically, politically, and demographically in terms of the rich and poor and the rest there, and have a new — just a new, fresh start,” the California Democrat added.
House leaders said they plan to introduce legislation — possibly as soon as next week — that would allow people to deduct charitable contributions directed to Haiti from their 2009 tax filings.
The contributions would have to be made prior to March 1, according to a congressional aide.
Congress passed similar legislation shortly after the December 2004 tsunami in Asia.
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