Posted on 04/15/2016 7:06:38 PM PDT by 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. …
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Damn! More then Cruz. Good for Bernie to beat the scumbag!
The dang truth hurts. Cruz is a nasty guy to not give to charity and you know it.
I’d never accuse the AP of being sane.
And Her Thighness donated some of Bubba’s used (dirty) boxers, hashmarks, jizz and all.
Let’s pretend the Clinton Foundation isn’t a “charity”.
How much did Hillary give to charity last year?
How much “charity” did she accept last year?
To each according to his needs
Bernie’s intention is to bankrupt the free market and America , just a hypothetical.
And how do you know Cruz did “not give to charity”?
Oh, that’s right, you don’t, and you know it.
Well, it is below the Biblical tithe, but it’s above the Qu’ranic zakat (the rate for which 1/40th of one’s income happens to equal the average rate of charitable giving among Americans — Mohammed was both wicked and clever and picked a rate of obligatory giving that would not be sacrificial) and actually very generous for notable figures on the left.
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