What reason would you have in not having anyone knowing you donated $500 to x?
Well mostly because I feel it's my business.
Why should my employees, my neighbors, my relatives be able to see if I give a candidate $50?
Again, why not? They're only going to find out, if they look. Look at it this way....This whole issue about donations/contributions is predicated on money is speech, i.e free speech. Do you see anyone trying to advocate a suppressed form of free speech, so that some folks don't know what someone else said about a candidate, because they're employees, neighbors, or even relatives might find out?
See, that's the part I'm having a hard time with. If you don't want people to know about your donations, don't talk about them. Are you concerned about....I don't know....some form of retaliation??
I doubt very seriously anyone is going to expect a QPQ kick back to you for a $500 donation
Exactly.
So, which again begs the question, why not?, when such a level of transparencey provides a perfect window into any potential corruptive QPQ going on