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Thanks for clearing up what they will never stop lying about.
Dick Cheney Donates Millions to Charity
In one of the largest sums ever donated to charity by a U.S. public
official, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne gave away nearly $7
million last year to help the poor and to medical research.
According to income tax information released by the White House on Friday,
the Cheneys' adjusted gross income in 2005 was $8,819,006.
The sum was largely the result of Mr. Cheney's stock options from
Halliburton and royalties from three books written by Mrs. Cheney.
The Cheneys gave more than three-quarters of their income - $6,869,655 - to
several charities, including George Washington University's Cardiothoracic
Institute and a charity for low-income high school students in the
Washington, D.C. area, Capital Partners for Education.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/15/02358.shtml
Obama has enjoyed a robust household income throughout his political career
in the Illinois Senate and the U.S. Senate. But for most of that time he has
reported comparatively little by national standards in charitable
contributions on his tax returns, records released by Obama show.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0704250022apr25,0,2994918.story
Gores' Charitable Giving Raises Some Eyebrows
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, April 15) -- In a 34-page 1997 federal tax return,
Vice President Al Gore and wife Tipper reported giving $353 to charity, an
amount much lower than donations the family has made in previous tax cycles.
That figure is less than one-tenth the typical contribution amount for
someone with the Gores' adjusted gross income of $197,729. That fact has
caused some bewilderment in philanthropic circles because of the vice
president's "good guy" image as an advocate for public service and social
causes, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/15/gore.taxes/
Biden's Average Annual Charitable-Gift Total: $369
Sen. Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, have given an average of $369 per year to
charities during the past decade, according to tax returns posted today to
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Web site.
Senator Biden, the Democratic nominee for vice president, claimed $995 in
charitable gifts in 2007 on the joint return with his wife. That figure is
0.3 percent of the couple's claimed income of nearly $320,000.
http://philanthropy.com/news/government/5685/bidens-average-annual-charitable-gift-total-369
The child of academics, raised in a liberal household and educated in the
liberal arts, Brooks has written a book that concludes religious
conservatives donate far more money than secular liberals to all sorts of
charitable activities, irrespective of income.
In the book, he cites extensive data analysis to demonstrate that values
advocated by conservatives -- from church attendance and two-parent families
to the Protestant work ethic and a distaste for government-funded social
services -- make conservatives more generous than liberals.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/204/story_20419_1.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2006/12/06/who_gives_to_charity
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/15/gore.taxes/
-Eddie Haskell