Mitt Romney Gave Millions To Charity, While Joe Biden Gave $369...

[Avatar4321]

I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one. It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is very rich. He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity and to the taxman.

In the early hours of this morning, some 550 pages of Mitt Romney's tax returns and a 2011 tax summary were released by his campaign. Just after dawn, there was a long campaign conference call for bleary-eyed reporters in which an accountant (who sounded exactly like you'd imagine Mitt Romney's accountant would sound) went into details of Mitt millions in mind-numbing detail.

There was an air of grumpy efficency about the call, which was led by Ben Ginsberg, who was George W. Bush's lawyer during the Florida election recount in 2000. At one point Ginsberg noted that 26 people from Chicago were listening into the proceedings, a reference to the Obama campaign headquarters.

So what were the headlines? He raked in about $42 million in 2010 and 2011. His effective tax rate was just below 14 percent, lower than that for many American taxpayers. He paid $6.2 million to the taxman and donated a staggering $7 million to charity, including $4.1 million to the Mormon church.

OK, so Mormons are supposed to tithe 10 percent of their income. But it's to Romney's immense credit that he promised to do this in his youth and followed through with that - to the tune of scores of millions (maybe hundreds of millions) of dollars throughout his life.

In fact, in those two years, he paid 16 percent of his income to charity, compared to, er, 2.6 percent by Newt Gingrich.

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.

As far as we know, Romney scrupulously adhered to all US tax laws. No one has accused him of tax evasion.


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Mitt Romney gave millions to charity. Joe Biden gave $369. - Mail Online - Toby Harnden's blog
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity

That wasn't "charity". It was what his cult demanded he give them. Calling it charity is obscene.

Churches are charities.

And all tithes are voluntary.

 

[HUGGY]

I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one. It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is very rich. He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity and to the taxman.

In the early hours of this morning, some 550 pages of Mitt Romney's tax returns and a 2011 tax summary were released by his campaign. Just after dawn, there was a long campaign conference call for bleary-eyed reporters in which an accountant (who sounded exactly like you'd imagine Mitt Romney's accountant would sound) went into details of Mitt millions in mind-numbing detail.

There was an air of grumpy efficency about the call, which was led by Ben Ginsberg, who was George W. Bush's lawyer during the Florida election recount in 2000. At one point Ginsberg noted that 26 people from Chicago were listening into the proceedings, a reference to the Obama campaign headquarters.

So what were the headlines? He raked in about $42 million in 2010 and 2011. His effective tax rate was just below 14 percent, lower than that for many American taxpayers. He paid $6.2 million to the taxman and donated a staggering $7 million to charity, including $4.1 million to the Mormon church.

OK, so Mormons are supposed to tithe 10 percent of their income. But it's to Romney's immense credit that he promised to do this in his youth and followed through with that - to the tune of scores of millions (maybe hundreds of millions) of dollars throughout his life.

In fact, in those two years, he paid 16 percent of his income to charity, compared to, er, 2.6 percent by Newt Gingrich.

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.

As far as we know, Romney scrupulously adhered to all US tax laws. No one has accused him of tax evasion.


Read More:
Mitt Romney gave millions to charity. Joe Biden gave $369. - Mail Online - Toby Harnden's blog
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity

That wasn't "charity". It was what his cult demanded he give them. Calling it charity is obscene.

Churches are charities.

And all tithes are voluntary.

In a strange way I like our bipolar exchanges. The Manson family killed voluntarily for Charlie. The Branch Davidians voluntarily gave thier children to Koresh so he could molest them.

I'm not stupid...don't you be stupid and we can get along better.

Just curious...do you think any Mormon gives more money to that church than Romney?

 

[Synthaholic]

Romney has millions to give, dope.

 

[Avatar4321]

He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity

That wasn't "charity". It was what his cult demanded he give them. Calling it charity is obscene.

Churches are charities.

And all tithes are voluntary.

In a strange way I like our bipolar exchanges. The Manson family killed voluntarily for Charlie. The Branch Davidians voluntarily gave thier children to Koresh so he could molest them.

I'm not stupid...don't you be stupid and we can get along better.

Just curious...do you think any Mormon gives more money to that church than Romney?

Yes. But as I am not privy to the income and tithing of all Mormons it is impossible to be certain. I just dont believe Romney is the richest Mormon. Wonder how he compares to Jon Huntsman Sr.

 

[editec]

JOE BIDENS net worth is about a half million bucks.

Hell some people posting on this board have higher net worth than that.

 

[California Girl]

I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one. It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is very rich. He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity and to the taxman.

In the early hours of this morning, some 550 pages of Mitt Romney's tax returns and a 2011 tax summary were released by his campaign. Just after dawn, there was a long campaign conference call for bleary-eyed reporters in which an accountant (who sounded exactly like you'd imagine Mitt Romney's accountant would sound) went into details of Mitt millions in mind-numbing detail.

There was an air of grumpy efficency about the call, which was led by Ben Ginsberg, who was George W. Bush's lawyer during the Florida election recount in 2000. At one point Ginsberg noted that 26 people from Chicago were listening into the proceedings, a reference to the Obama campaign headquarters.

So what were the headlines? He raked in about $42 million in 2010 and 2011. His effective tax rate was just below 14 percent, lower than that for many American taxpayers. He paid $6.2 million to the taxman and donated a staggering $7 million to charity, including $4.1 million to the Mormon church.

OK, so Mormons are supposed to tithe 10 percent of their income. But it's to Romney's immense credit that he promised to do this in his youth and followed through with that - to the tune of scores of millions (maybe hundreds of millions) of dollars throughout his life.

In fact, in those two years, he paid 16 percent of his income to charity, compared to, er, 2.6 percent by Newt Gingrich.

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.

As far as we know, Romney scrupulously adhered to all US tax laws. No one has accused him of tax evasion.


Read More:
Mitt Romney gave millions to charity. Joe Biden gave $369. - Mail Online - Toby Harnden's blog
DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity

That wasn't "charity". It was what his cult demanded he give them. Calling it charity is obscene.

Actually, he gives far over and above his tithe to the Church. He has a family foundation, which donates serious amounts of money across a broad range of non-faith based charities. I think that speaks well of his character. And that is not 'demanded' by his Church.

 

[Leweman]

Nope. Money spent to defend marriage doesn't discriminate against anyone.

Uhh, have you thought this through? I just want to know, "Defend marriage from what"?

Being redefined.

Especially against the will of the people.

Marriage gets redefined constantly. Right now its defined as making 20 million dollars for people to watch the ceremony and then getting divorced two months later. Now that's a joke but perfectly legal. Come on there's no such thing as a true definition of marriage that we follow as a society. When we don't like it we just change the definition. In reality marriage will only be defined by the two people who are in it. That can be two males, two females or a male and female as long as they are of mental capacity to make that decision.

 

[pvsi.]

I'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one. It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is very rich. He also gave millions and millions of dollars to charity and to the taxman.

What frustrates me the most is that I don't hear enough about where the candidates stand on important issues such as gay rights, climate change, space travel, goat herding in Afpakistan and other essential issues - how can I possibly make my decision who to vote for without knowing?

 

[paulitician]

Boy, Biden and Gore are real cheapskates. Gore especially.

 

[xotoxi]

Good information.

When I vote for President, I exclusively vote for whichever candidate gave the highest percentage of his annual income to charity. I take nothing else into consideration.