Why do obama and biden want to give your money away when they dont donate less than 1% to charities?

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obama gives average 3500 a year when he is making 4 to 6 million a year
Biden gives 369 dollars a year when they take in 360 thousand a year
MCain gives 202 thousand a year when he makes 440 thousand a year.
Cindy, who has nothing to do with this gives 10 to 20% of her income each and every year.
below are the sources AND their tax returns.
These figres are FROM their own tax returns.

So, if its partiotic to pay taxes, wouldnt it be MORE patriotic to give to charites?
seems the dems have NO problem spending YOUR money, but do NOT touch theirs!!!


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=am_Rg6sl2eqY&refer=home
Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $319,853 in adjusted gross income and paid $72,787 in federal taxes last year, including $2,721 in alternative minimum taxes. They claimed $995 in deductions for charitable giving, about triple what they deducted in any of the nine previous years. Over the past decade they reported giving an average of $369 to charity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/obama-tax-returns-low-on-_n_93353.html
Sen. Barack Obama released seven years of prior tax return documents on Tuesday. And a review of the records reveals several newsworthy, albeit minor, disclosures.
Up until recent years when their income increased sharply from book revenues and a Senate salary, Obama's family donated a relatively minor amount of its earnings to charity. From 2000 through 2004, the senator and his wife never gave more than $3,500 a year in charitable donations -- about 1 percent of their annual earnings.
there only 2 charities were Rev Wright and the United N E G R O S fund.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-12-biden-financial_N.htm
Mccain on the other hand donates 1/4th of his income and Cindy donates 10 to 20 % of her income.
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.

Ynot! · Accepted Answer

I think your question my be rhetorical most liberals will avoid your question like the plague because they have no answer for it ....It has been shown in surveys that conservatives donate a lot more than liberals. 

To sum it up in a way that anyone can understand...from a phrase that many women use and it applies to liberals as well." What I make is MY money, What you make is OUR money"

Whatever4 · Answer

From your links: 

(Bloomberg) "Biden's financial disclosure returns also show donations of speaking fees to charity that aren't reported on the tax returns." 

(Huffington post) "As new parents who were paying off their large student loans, giving $10,000 to charity [from 2000 to 2004] was as generous as they could be at the time," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton"

(USAToday) "When Vice President Dick Cheney was campaigning in 2000, he defended his family's charitable donations of $209,832, or about 1%, of the $20.6 million he earned from 1989 to 1999. "It's a private matter … a matter of private choice," Cheney said in 2000. "

Anonymous · Answer

Wasn't it George Bush that got you guys in this hole?
And the States wasn't the number 1 country for that long, only about 50 years.
You guys suck!

You should be thanking  your country for adapting to the times, and electing Obama.

I swear, American conservatives are afraid of society


Liberals don't want to spend other people's money, they want everyone, including themselves, to pitch in for a better, cleaner country, that protects their citizens, and helps them to achieve their ambitions. Conservatives are greedy, and society fearing, thinking there's not enough to go around and actually produce more of the problems they complain about

Anonymous · Answer

That is how modern liberals are- even around here they all want programs from the government but most give little to nothing of their own money- and I work with taxes everyday so I see these people who are out pushing for more government services then they come see me and try to get their taxes lowered- and no they are not poor people that come and try to play me

Anonymous · Answer

I have donated between 10%-15% of every paycheck and I am alarmed to hear this.

But these guys think they are being charitable by paying taxes and taxing the productive.

SERENAZ · Answer

If they 'don't donate less than 1% to charities' ... does that mean they do?
By the way ... I think I just saw a flock of pigs fly by ... the McCains and their 'creative' accountants have sure fooled you if you believe that twaddle.

Lawgirl · Answer

Obama gave $240,000 in charity in 2007.  Get your facts straight.  

And it is stupid to say they want to give away our money when taxes have been a way of life for years.

http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/4219/barack-and-michelle-obama-donated-60307-to-charity-in-2006

Max50 · Answer

Because they rather give away other people's money rather put up their own.

Liberals also like to cry how conservatives don't care about the poor when it is the conservatives that giver more of their own time and money to help others.

I guess others talk and others do.

Anonymous · Answer

It's the liberal/Socialist way--they are very generous with OTHER PEOPLES' money.  YOU give to the needy, THEY don't.  YOU pay your taxes, his Cabinet doesn't.  YOU PAY, YOU PAY, YOU PAY--they're the elite and don't have to.

Anonymous · Answer

That's a bunch of bull!
He makes 250,000 a year in a salary.
How did you come up with 4 to 6 million?
Why should we give anything to charities? What did they ever do for us?

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