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The Obamas: A two-thirds pay cut in 2010 (Obama pays only 26% tax on $1.7 million)
cnn ^ | 4/18/2011 | staff

Posted on 04/18/2011 1:44:26 PM PDT by tobyhill

President Obama and the first family earned about two-thirds less in 2010 than the year before, and donated about 14% of their income to charity.

The Obama family, in tax returns released Monday by the White House, reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096, down from about $5.5 million in 2009.

The Obamas reported paying $453,770 in federal taxes. They donated $245,075, or 14% of their income, to 36 different charities. Fisher House Foundation, a charity that works with veterans, took home the biggest single donation.

The president earns a salary of $400,000 for his day job. His paycheck was much higher because his books -- "Dreams From My Father," "The Audacity of Hope" and "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters" -- continued to register strong sales. But those sales were not nearly as strong as they were the year before.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: husseinhatesamerica; husseinhatesinfidels; kenyanvillagefelon; kenyanvillageidiot; kenyavillageraid; muslimterroristotus

1 posted on 04/18/2011 1:44:28 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
Fisher House Foundation, a charity that works with veterans, took home the biggest single donation.

That ain't gonna make the Wrong Reverend Wright very happy.

2 posted on 04/18/2011 1:49:17 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I am declaring 2011 to be the year of ME!)
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To: tobyhill
Mr President: lead by example:

Don't
take
any
deductions.

3 posted on 04/18/2011 1:51:02 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: tobyhill; STARWISE; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom
FYI = its income taxes.

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4 posted on 04/18/2011 1:52:07 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: tobyhill

Obama rejects even the 35% max.


5 posted on 04/18/2011 1:52:17 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Impeach Obama & try him for treason / Homosexuals reject diversity / Unions finally caught for theft)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Even after a charitable contribution deduction, he paid only 30% when the “Bush Tax Cuts” are 35% for his income level and the fact he's asking those making over $200,000 to pay more.
6 posted on 04/18/2011 1:53:08 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: gov_bean_ counter
That ain't gonna make the Wrong Reverend Wright very happy.

They had the single biggest donation, but I bet others got more total in multiple donations.

Political posturing I bet; nothing more.

7 posted on 04/18/2011 1:53:59 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: NoLibZone

That’s why he’s a hypocrite.


8 posted on 04/18/2011 1:54:15 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
The Obama family, in tax returns released Monday by the White House, reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096, down from about $5.5 million in 2009.

Oh, the poor Obama's! Maybe they can get a government handout. So sad!

9 posted on 04/18/2011 2:06:13 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: al_c
"The Obama family, in tax returns released Monday by the White House, reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096, down from about $5.5 million in 2009."

Not bad for a guy that knows exactly zero about anything to do with work. Does anyone know what the income was when he was doing the only job he knows how to do- COMMUNITY ORGANIZER????

10 posted on 04/18/2011 2:19:52 PM PDT by LADY J ( Change your thoughts and you change your world.. - Norman Vincent Peale))
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To: LADY J

Probably a Big ZERO for the BIG ZERO!
Rush talked today about how Trump has called this Fraud out for using a Domestic Terrorist, Bill Ayers, to write “DREAMS” and how Jack Cashill has proven Obama could never have written “DREAMS” nor “The Audacity of Truth” which is much inferior to “DREAMS” and written by the Political Hack, Jhn Favrour, Obama’s boy child speech fabricator. Cash ill’s latest book, “Deconstructing Obama” is a Must Read by All as we rocket toward the 2012 Election with a screwed up GOP!


11 posted on 04/18/2011 2:39:04 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: tobyhill

If they included all the free vacations as income...it would have trippled.


12 posted on 04/18/2011 2:42:21 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Tommy Daschle got called out for not declaring the fair value of his free Limousine to the tune of one Hundred thousand dollars of undeclared taxable income and the Kenyan Fraud skates on Millions of dollars in “Free Vacations!” You are sooooooooooo right!!!


13 posted on 04/18/2011 2:47:49 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Tommy Daschle got called out for not declaring the fair value of his free Limousine to the tune of one Hundred thousand dollars of undeclared taxable income and the Kenyan Fraud skates on Millions of dollars in “Free Vacations!” You are sooooooooooo right!!!


14 posted on 04/18/2011 2:48:05 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Greatest President :George W. Bush!!)
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To: True Republican Patriot

The trip to Spain with all the hangers on cost more than their claimed annual income.


15 posted on 04/18/2011 3:43:25 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: True Republican Patriot
"the Kenyan Fraud skates on Millions of dollars in “Free Vacations!” You are sooooooooooo right!!!"

He is campaigning & fund raising with tax payer money. The RAT party should be paying the freight - not us!

16 posted on 04/18/2011 5:14:19 PM PDT by LADY J ( Change your thoughts and you change your world.. - Norman Vincent Peale))
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