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Mitt Romney gave millions to charity. Joe Biden gave $369.
Daily Mail ^ | 1/24/12 | Tony Harnden

Posted on 01/24/2012 1:32:12 PM PST by Nachum

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: biden; joe; mitt; romney
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Stand up Chuck!
1 posted on 01/24/2012 1:32:15 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

What? No second hand underwear?


2 posted on 01/24/2012 1:36:36 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'm not cut out to suffer fools like this.)
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To: Nachum

Charity - that’s the government’s business. /liberal thinking


3 posted on 01/24/2012 1:38:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Nachum

So?

What’s he done for conservatism?

Absolutely Nothing!


4 posted on 01/24/2012 1:38:31 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Nachum
Listen that $369.00 Joe sent to charity was HARD EARNED MONEY.
How dare Romney post his charitable contributions. he only did it to embarrass JOE.
JOE likes to send OPM to charity. (Other Peoples Money)
5 posted on 01/24/2012 1:39:38 PM PST by DeaconRed (Cold War Veteran. . . . US Army Security Agency 1964-1968)
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To: dfwgator

Personally DGARA what Mittster did with his own money. It is what he wants to do with MINE that worries me.


6 posted on 01/24/2012 1:39:57 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Nachum

It would be interesting to see the study of Republicans money to charity and Democrats money to charity


7 posted on 01/24/2012 1:39:57 PM PST by GoCards (I am a Hobbit)
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To: Nachum

I’m pretty sure Biden is a miser. He has a reputation in Greenville for running up a tab at a certain grocery store, letting it linger for way to damn long and then coming up with contrived excuses to pay less than owed.


8 posted on 01/24/2012 1:43:06 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Nachum
Interesting read. It is also worth noting that Biden is a notoriously inept money manager if his personal worth disclosure is correct.

I believe it had his net worth at about $750,000. Biden has had at least a U.S. Senator's salary and gold-plated benefit package since John McCain was a guest in the Hanoi Hilton in the early 1970's. Biden has not even had to maintain a second home in the DC Area since (as the media if fond of telling us) he commuted to work from Wilmington on Amtrak.

9 posted on 01/24/2012 1:44:09 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Nachum

I want Newt to beat Mitt. I don’t want Newt to attack Mitt on his capitalist flank.


10 posted on 01/24/2012 1:44:17 PM PST by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: Nachum
Mitt Romney gave millions to charity promote a false religion.

There fixed it.

11 posted on 01/24/2012 1:53:05 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Nachum
Biden's charitable contributions are an embarrassment against most people, even those making less.


12 posted on 01/24/2012 1:53:32 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Voter#537
JOE likes to send OPM to charity. (Other Peoples Money)

Just a few minutes ago, the radio announcer on the country music station I listen to came on the air and said that Obama gave less than 1% of his earnings to charity.

He then followed that up with the comment that he could understand how that happened. He said that Obama was so busy giving our money away that he just forgot to give some of his own.

This was on the largest country music station in south Mississippi.

13 posted on 01/24/2012 1:55:19 PM PST by houeto
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To: Nachum

Well, I agree that it would be foolish for Newt to attack Mitt for being a rich capitalist. But I still wonder why his taxes are so low. Does he keep most of it offshore? I notice that no one has said anything about that conjecture.


14 posted on 01/24/2012 1:57:47 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SoConPubbie

Oh, geez, stop being such a hardass and give the guy some credit. The Mormon church is the main financier of California’s anti-gay marriage proposition. If his donations helped that effort in ANY way, he’s done plenty.


15 posted on 01/24/2012 2:01:32 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Nachum
Well if Joe donates clothing like the Clintons, that IS a lot of used briefs!
16 posted on 01/24/2012 2:06:58 PM PST by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Nachum

I’d say he paid “only” 14% because he gave 7 million to charities which equal legal deductions.

Screw the left and their “pay what’s fair”.

Then, make the poor pay their fair share, too.


17 posted on 01/24/2012 2:09:05 PM PST by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: Nachum

Plugs wants to spread your wealth (and Willard’s) around to the poor not his.


18 posted on 01/24/2012 2:09:57 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: DannyTN

I think we should refrain from calling the LDS church a false religion. It might not be your religion, but I seem to remember that we have religious tolerance in this country.

And last time I checked there weren’t a bunch of LDS people blowing themselves up or flying planes into buildings.


19 posted on 01/24/2012 2:15:27 PM PST by pie_eater
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To: SoConPubbie
So? What’s he done for conservatism? Absolutely Nothing!

Obsess much?

BTW, update your Home Page....nobody's cared about what McCain thinks in, oh, 3 or 4 years.

20 posted on 01/24/2012 2:17:10 PM PST by muleskinner
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