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They are very charitable with other people's money....but

Started by Mozart4 REPLIES429 VIEWS· 06 Aug 2019, 05:52
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MozartCaptain49,914 posts
06 Aug 2019, 05:52
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06 Aug 2019, 05:52#1
.....the Democratic candidates have an embarrassing record of charitable contributions, especially for public figures. Good old caring Bernie for example. Beaten -Ou is the worst but nobody takes him seriously. Not only are these disgusting people low givers, they fall below average for US citizens with similar incomes. ....................................................... Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke released 10 years of tax returns filed jointly with his wife, Amy. In 2017, the O'Rourkes earned $366,455 but gave only $1,166 to charity. That is just over 0.3% of their income in charitable contributions. Similarly, the O'Rourkes gave just 0.2% of their income to charity in 2016. By comparison, the average American household in the same income bracket that itemizes its deductions gave $21,364 to charity in 2016, according to IRS data. The O'Rourkes' charitable contributions do not get much larger in other years either. The last time they gave more than $10,000 was in 2013, when they donated just over 4% of their income to charity. Like O'Rourke, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders gave relatively little to charity compared with other Americans, despite writing a book that made him a millionaire in 2016. Sanders, who for years resisted releasing several years of his tax returns, earned $1,073,333 but gave $10,600 to charity — or just less than 1% of his income. Based on 2014 IRS data, people who made more than $1 million that year took an average charitable deduction of $382,953, or 5.6% of their income. Sanders' campaign said that proceeds from his 2012 book, "The Speech," are donated to charity and not reflected in his returns. Sanders boosted his charitable giving in the years since 2016, giving 3.4% of his adjusted gross income in 2018 and 3% in 2017. Other candidates also donated relatively small amounts to charity, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who along with her husband donated less than 2% of their $215,000 income to charity last year. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her husband gave $6,600 of their $338,500 to charity, a percentage similar to Gillibrand's. California Sen. Kamala Harris gave 1.4% of her and her husband's $1.9 million income to charity in 2017. And during several years of her time as California's attorney general, Harris reported no charitable donations. Higher charitable contributions came from Democrats such as Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Inslee and his wife donated 4% of their income in 2017, while Warren and her husband contributed 5.5% of their $906,000. Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey was the lone standout among the 2020 Democratic candidates so far. Booker released 10 years of tax returns on Wednesday evening. In 2018, he made $152,639 (his US Senate salary); he paid $22,781 in federal taxes (a 19% tax rate); and he donated $24,000 to charity. His charitable donation amount equals a little more than 15% of his 2018 income, and it makes him the Democratic candidate who gave the largest monetary percentage of his salary to charity. A lack of charitable contributions has been a sore spot for presidential candidates in the past. In 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and then-President Barack Obama each gave considerably more to charity than O'Rourke and Sanders, donating 29% and 22%, respectively. But also in 2012, former Vice President Joe Biden — now a potential 2020 presidential candidate — gave just 1.5% of his income to charity along with his wife, Jill Biden. The small portion the couple gave to charity was widely criticized, but it was larger than O'Rourke's and Sanders' 2016 donations. Other tax-return releases from the Obama campaign also showed how the Bidens donated $3,690 to charity over the course of an entire decade. Meanwhile, Trump has refused to release his tax returns, even after demands from the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee, setting up a long legal fight between the president and Congress.
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CeradynePro9,374 posts
06 Aug 2019, 10:02
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06 Aug 2019, 10:02#2
“California Sen. Kamala Harris gave 1.4% of her and her husband's $1.9 million income to charity in 2017. And during several years of her time as California's attorney general, Harris reported no charitable donations.” Kamala did “donate” generously to the prison population though, through jailing parents of kids guilty of truancy...... She was also not shy to add to the prison population for smoking pot while being a pot smoker herself.
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clevermikeCoach57,555 posts
06 Aug 2019, 10:03
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06 Aug 2019, 10:03#3

Mozart

You must remember that it is normal for leftists to spend other peoples money while at the same time doing everything possible to loot resources to enrich themselves.  Charitable contributions are made by people with a guilty conscience - not by the Socialist elite who has no such conscience or so they claim - so they can justify that it is not required f rom them.  The communist leaders always lived in luxury and parceled off money to foreign bank accounts - a practice still continuing in countries like Cuba and Venezuela.

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Beeno1Captain40,032 posts
06 Aug 2019, 10:13
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06 Aug 2019, 10:13#4

Their lack of giving to charity is one thing. 

How about the Green New Deal with its 93  TRILLION  dollars price tag over 10 years for tax payers. 

Or how about Medicare for all at a cost of 43 TRILLION dollars!

Destroy the economy. Don't use your coal, oil and gas reserves and ship jobs overseas whilst having open borders and free heal are, schooling and housing for these illegals. If that were not enough how about an income for people not willing to work. 

Any American voting for these Democrat SABATEURS hates America or is a daft as the boards clown ROOIBOZO. 

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MozartCaptain49,914 posts
06 Aug 2019, 13:49
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06 Aug 2019, 13:49#5
It's a character test.....these people are fakes. If you actually looked at the charities involved my guess is you wont find the SPCA or Doctors Without Borders. You'd probably find they charitably donate their own books to public libraries or schools.....or do something in their own communities that indirectly benefit them. Beware of the do-gooders.
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