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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign.Joe Biden? He gave $369 in charity!
And what about President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the run-up to their 2008 campaign?
USA Today broke it down here. In 2007, the Obamas gave more than $240,000 to charity, about 5.7 percent of their income. The Bidens gave an average of $369 to charity a year for the decade before he moved to the Naval Observatory - about 0.3 percent of their income. Back in 1997, then veep Al Gore and his then wife Tipper gave $353.
Since becoming veep, Biden hasn't become much more generous. In 2010, he gave $5,350, about 1.4 percent of income. That same year, Romney gave some $3 million. The national average is about three percent.
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Update: What is Romney's real tax rate?
Instalanche - Nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I was busy and just checked and whamo. Thanks GR!
DeleteDemocrats are always willing to be generous with others money, especially when they can skim a few bucks off in campaign contributions en route
ReplyDeleteAs P.J O'Rourke says: Cheap Virtue! It is so much fun to be generous with other people's money.
DeleteOh, please. Biden and Obama have their residences, meals, health care, expenses all paid for... plus they draw a decent salary. It's ALL disposable income.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is, even now, with the economy so bad, middle-class conservatives give a far greater percentage of their income than well-to-do liberals. Typically, they give more in absolute dollars, too. It is common for upper-middle-class Conservatives to give 20k/year to charity. More than Biden. He has always been a cheapskate.
EBL:
ReplyDeleteWhat the heck happened to Trooper's blog? Did he get censored by his new network TV bosses?
No. He just went private. Send me an email at evilbloggerlady@gmail.com
DeleteThe Democrats think Romney gives too much to charity.
ReplyDeleteHe gave more to charity than to the government, while obama gave charity just 1%.