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http://dailycaller.c...aign-complains/
http://money.cnn.com....html?hpt=po_c1
http://www.foxnews.c...over-2-decades/
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Now Whorehouse Harry Reid is forgetting his past accusations about Romney not paying any taxes, and claiming that
Romney's returns were manipulated....
Last time I checked, it wasn't a crime to not deduct charitable giving...
Even more interesting is the total amount that Romney, Ryan, Obama and Biden have been giving to charity.
Not only are Romney and Ryan paying their fair share, they're also giving freely to charity, something Biden and Obama haven't been quite as good at.
http://money.cnn.com....html?hpt=po_c1
http://www.foxnews.c...over-2-decades/
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Now Whorehouse Harry Reid is forgetting his past accusations about Romney not paying any taxes, and claiming that
Romney's returns were manipulated....
Last time I checked, it wasn't a crime to not deduct charitable giving...
Even more interesting is the total amount that Romney, Ryan, Obama and Biden have been giving to charity.
Not only are Romney and Ryan paying their fair share, they're also giving freely to charity, something Biden and Obama haven't been quite as good at.
Mitt Romney has donated nearly 13.5 percent of his income to charity over the last 20 years, according to a statement from his accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Those charitable gifts reached 29 percent of his income in 2011 when he donated $4 million out of his $13.7 million income, according to a Sept. 21 statement describing the Romney’s 2011 tax returns.
The combination of Romney’s charitable donations and tax payments to federal and state authorities – which averaged 20 percent, and never fell below 13.66 percent — amounted to 38.5 percent of his income over 20 years.
Romney’s generosity contrasts with President Barack Obama’s donations.
Obama gave 1 percent of his income, or $10,772, to charity between 2000 and 2004, according to tax data provided in January 2012. In 2005 and 2006, Obama increased his charitable giving to 5 percent of of his income, or $137,622 on $2.6 million in income. That figure grew to 5.7 percent in 2007.
In 2011, however, Obama’s charitable donations jumped to 22 percent of his income — $172,000 of the $792,000 he earned.
Obama’s donations were far higher than his running mate Joe Biden’s. In the 10 years leading up to the 2008 election, he donated an average of $369 per year, or roughly 0.3 percent of his income.
Since his election to vice-President, however, Joe Biden upped his charitable giving $5,350, or 1.46 percent of his income, in 2010.
Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, donated nearly $13,000 to charity in 2011, or about 4 percent of his income.
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