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Fear of debt drove Clinton's dash for cash - They went from ‘dead broke’ to millionaires in months
Politico ^ | September 18, 2015 | Annie Karni and Isabelle Taft

Posted on 09/19/2015 2:18:18 PM PDT by Zakeet

What Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, pay in local property taxes on two luxury homes ($104,303) is twice the income of an average family.

She earns more for a 20-minute speech to an industry trade group than a dozen fast-food workers make in a year.

Her book royalties last year brought in $5 million, part of the couple's $30.5 million in income.

The Clintons are far from the "dead broke" couple, as she has described, who left the White House saddled with debt after Bill Clinton's presidency. In fact, they now rank comfortably among the top one-tenth of the top 1 percent of earners.

Her net worth is $32,015,000, according to POLITICO’s analysis of her most recent financial disclosure.

The Clintons financial turnaround is largely due to Bill Clinton turning on the money-making faucet immediately after leaving office — but it was always Hillary Clinton who was more concerned with the family's finances and wanted them to earn money to pay off their debts.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; corruption; hillarybio; poverty
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To: Zakeet

Do they actually pay the property taxes on their two homes? Being Clintons, I would expect them to have a found a way to make someone else pay the taxes for them.


21 posted on 09/19/2015 3:42:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Zakeet

Greed drove them.


22 posted on 09/19/2015 4:57:40 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: Liz

In a just country, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea would be in prison.


23 posted on 09/19/2015 7:41:16 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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