Sanders gave 4 percent of income to charity in 2014

Associated Press ^ | Apr. 15, 2016 9:51 PM EDT | Chad Day

[Olog-hai]

Bernie Sanders released his full 2014 federal tax return Friday, revealing that he mostly lives off a six-figure government salary and donated about 4 percent of his family’s income to charitable causes.

Sanders and his wife, Jane, donated $8,350 to charity while reporting an adjusted gross income of about $205,000 that year, according to the couple's joint tax return. The share of his family’s income that went to charity was about one-third the percentage of income that his primary opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, gave to charitable groups.

The Sanders campaign released the return a day after a heated Democratic presidential debate in New York in which Sanders pledged to release the single return but hesitated to say when he would release additional years of his taxes. …

[God luvs America]

he’s a socialist/communist....why didn’t he give 50% of his income away??

[HiTech RedNeck]

This makes him more generous than Ted Cruz, at least superficially.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I knew a Trumpkin would go there. You all live up to my low expectations.

[disndat]

Ted would rather be more superficial than generous.

[Drango]

cheap @$$.

[max americana]

“he’s a socialist/communist....why didn’t he give 50% of his income away??”

EXACTLY. I thought libtards were supposed to SHARE, right? 4% sounds GREEDY.

[disndat]

It is only an election. We have them all the time. Nothing changes for the better. So why the angst?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Just keepin’ it real.

[bigbob]

A penny or two on the dollar is pretty superficial, that’s for sure.

[fieldmarshaldj]

He should be giving all of his income away.

[ladyjane]

Big deal! I gave about 40% of my money to the government.

[disndat]

40% is close to waste deep.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well Bernie can honestly say he gave in his taxes with his blessings.

You just don’t understand the scheme (rhetorical you, not necessarily bigbob).

The point here is who is going to make Caesar look the most like a church. Not the least! The more “charity” Caesar sends out, the better under this model. Ted Cruz can’t hope to come up to that level.

I know, what a ghastly ungodly thought. And you (rhetorical you) are right, it is. But we might as well be honest about our blasphemy, if we are going to insist on blaspheming.

[musicman]

"You all live up
to my low expectations...."

You mean your "low expectaions"
because according to YOUR OWN WORDS
Ted Cruz is NOT eligible to be POTUS???

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2511742/posts?page=20#20

20 posted on 5/12/2010, 3:03:41 PM by 2ndDivisionVet (Don’t care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A “Natural Born” citizen requires two US parents!)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ah, “Birtherism” is so yesterday. It’s now okay to use Rorschach tests on judges to figure out what the Constitution means.

[MarvinStinson]

WHICH charities did he give to?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or as I quipped about Donald Trump. He’s a pig, okay. But he’s our pig. Not Canada’s pig :-)

[fireman15]

The share of his family’s income that went to charity was about one-third the percentage of income that his primary opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Cruz definitely should start the Cruz Foundation, maybe he could even get Glenn Beck to start the Church of Cruzology. Then Cruz could look as generous as Hillary.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Commies are generous with everyone else’s money, never their own. Besides, he needs to keep some for whatever it is he’s smokin’.