bigbadberry3 wrote:Rich people wanting to keep their money? Never!
as if rich democrats dont want to keep their money? this is the type of rhetoric i want to curtail once and for on, especially on here. STOP WITH THIS HYPOCRITCAL NONSENSE. STOP ACTING AS IF YOUR DONKEYS' POO DOESNT STINK.
Greed: Rich businessman Mitt Romney gave more than 16% of his income to charity last year. A few years back, Barack and Michelle Obama gave less than 1% of theirs. Aren't Republicans supposed to be the heartless ones?
According to their tax returns, the
Obamas gave to charitable causes just $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004. In 2005 and 2006,
they boosted their giving a bit to 5%.
How about Vice President Joe Biden? Surely he could top the Obamas and save some face for the party that purports to be all about helping the poor. But no.
Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity for the decade preceding his vice presidency, according to USA Today. That amounted to 0.3% of their income. They haven't been much more generous since Biden became veep. In 2010, they gave $5,350, or roughly 1.4%.
Maybe the Clintons, the last Democrats to hold the White House before the Obamas, can save the party's reputation. From 2000 to 2006, their donations averaged 8.26% of income, from a low of 1.21% in 2002 to a high of 12.57% two years later, says the Tax Foundation.
Better, but not exactly Romney territory. The
former Massachusetts governor gave 13.73% of his income to charity in 2010 and an estimated 19.14% last year.
Perfect example of the democratic hypocrisy. You folks make a political career of painting yourselves as a champions of the poor, and blame republicans for being stingy with money - yet your own "messiah's" are stingy as hell.
Of course when Democrats talk about helping the poor, they don't mean with their own money. They mean using other people's money. Especially money from rich businessmen such as Romney.
Romney, of course, has been blistered in the media and by Democrats for being greedy. But who's greedier?
Those who make their fortunes through honest work and support policies that let Americans keep more of what is theirs? Or the lawmakers who grab, snatch, claw and bite for every dollar they can rake out of others?
There's a moral distinction between the two and voters need to recognize the great divide. When they do, we should begin to see a better class of politicians holding office.