Yep. Isn't THAT the truth!
Like Al Gore, who donated a miserly $353 to charity as vice president in 1997,
John Kerry may be a serial cheapskate.
During the early 1990s, with no apparent presidential aspirations, Kerry contributed the following amounts:
$0 in 1991;
$820, 1992;
$175, 1993;
$2,039, 1994;
$0, 1995.
Kerry and his wife have a combined net worth between $664 million and $760 million and, because the charitable con- tributions come from the book proceeds, they won't draw down the family treasury.
The question Kerry still needs to answer, however, is why he isn't as generous with his own vast personal wealth as he is with tax money forcibly extracted from everyone else.
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