Joe Biden and the blue team are sure quick to say they want to dip into the pockets of the rich, but they don't seem so willing to dip into their own pockets:
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity during the past decade, his tax records show.
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Over the decade, the Bidens reported a total of $3,690 in charitable donations, or 0.2% of their income.
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Takes some pretty big balls to give freely far less than the national average, and way, way less when compared to others in the same income bracket. And then say the government need to take more from the rich. Maybe if folks like Biden were not such big cheapskates there would be less need for the government to do more?
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Nationally, more than two-thirds of U.S. households reported giving to charity in 2004, with average contributions of $2,047 that year, according to a study released in January by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Those households who gave to charity averaged donations of about 3% of their income, says Patrick Rooney, the center's interim executive director....
....Another study of wealthy households in 2005 found average yearly donations of $40,746 from people with incomes from $200,000 per year to $500,000 per year, Rooney says. But like most statistics on giving, those numbers are skewed upwards by a small number of people who give large amounts to charity, says Rooney, formerly the center's research director.
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The Obama's were better (once they got uber rich - over ten million income), but were under the national average (3%) back in 2000 when they were making less.
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The Obamas gave more than $240,000 to charity last year, about 5.7% of their income, their tax return shows. Their charitable giving has risen with their income; in 2000, when the couple made $240,726, they gave $2,350 to charity, about 1% of their income.
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McCain on the other hand gave more than 8 times the national average based upon percentages. Granted having an uber, uber, rich wife makes it easy to give. But that does not mean he had to give.
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John McCain reported giving more than $202,000 — a quarter of his income — to charity in 2006 and 2007, the only years for which his campaign released his tax returns. His campaign didn't release information about his wife's charitable contributions, however. In 2006, her total itemized tax deductions, a category which includes charitable contributions and other deductible items such as mortgage interest, was $569,737, or 9.3% of her income.
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Most of my charitable donations now days end up in Issan - and I give regularly.