It’s not even a matter of tax reductions. It requires literally nothing and almost zero actual, elbow-grease effort to collect funds from your audience and then make the big sweeping claim that you’re a “good person” for “raising” all this money. The money being donated isn’t money Lucas earned by the sweat of his brow, toiling hard at work doing real work in the real world, actually sacrificing something to try and affect good for others. It’s money that was mostly earned by the parents of the children who watch him, donating some of their allowance as tithings or mandatory dues to the Troon Church.
Additionally, bragging and constantly reminding people about what a good person you are for doing a good deed almost entirely negates the act itself. Especially when that act is something so dumb and shallow, basically an attention grab, that didn’t require any serious sacrifice in the first place.
All that too is putting aside the fact that the money isn’t even for a good cause, it’s all going to people who will help more kids troon out on hormones behind their parents’ backs. And who knows how that money was budgeted; were the leaders of those organizations paid exorbant salaries for their “work”? did Lucas himself take a slice, considering his previous episodes of money mismanagement? Those last two are 100% speculation, not confirmed fact, but I think they’re worth asking. But I actually do think it would be good if there was corruption/nepotism going on in this case, because it would mean more of that money is just being converted into shitty fast food to be shat out by these troons through their front holes, or porn and video games to pacify them and take more of their free time away from grooming children; rather than going directly to making more hormones or whatever the fuck they said that money is going to.