10 years of Biden’s tax returns released
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Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has released copies of federal income tax returns filed by his running mate,ÂÂ Sen. Joe Biden, over the last 10 years.
Biden’s 12-page 2007 income tax return shows the Delaware senator and his wife, Jill, paid $66,273 in federal income taxes on a combined adjusted gross income of $319,853 for 2007.
Biden earned $161,708 as a senator, $20,000 as an adjunct instructor on constitutional law at Widener University and $71,000 in royalties from his book, “Promises to keep: on life and politics.’’
His wife earned $66,546 teaching at a community college.
The couple also earned $99 in interest income.
Here’s the link to the data from the Obama campaign’s “answer center:’’
http://answercenter.barackobama.com/cgi-bin/barackobama.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=224&p_created=1220635525&p_sid=O73-WGdj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MiwyJnBfcHJvZHM9JnBfY2F0cz
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Who cares about tax returns about any candidate? What does it have to do with issues?
It has to do with vetting a candidate to insure there
are no financial skeletons or conflicts that later
rear their ugly heads..
Actually, what it demonstrates is that the Obama/Biden campaign contradicts itself. Democrats (and Obama in particular) define anyone who makes $200,000 (and over) as rich (regardless of cost of living). Biden, makes over $200,000 and combined with his wife he is without a doubt in the top 2% of income earners. Yet, he has by some accounts accrued very little in net wealth despite living in a relatively cheap place to live as compared to Westchester and he consistently claims he is middle-class. Thus, the Democrats economic argument that taxes need to be higher on those couples earning $250,000 and on individuals earning $200,000 because those people have money to burn (not when it comes to charity for Biden) is somewhat undercut.
Missing from this story is the fact that Biden has given less to charity than I’d imagine even some homeless folks give to charity. Shameful. But that was Al Gore too, and Obama till recently.
And don’t forget that on his taxes Bill Clinton wrote off donations of old underwear to the Salvation Army.
It all is standard hypocrisy by the tax and spend Limo Liberals.
Some real numbers, instead of Jiminy’s slanted opinions, on the charitable giving vs. income for Clintons, Cheneys, Bushes and John McCain can be found in the article and chart here…
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-12-biden-financial_N.htm
No disputing that Biden did not give that much, though.
I don’t know how fair it is to question and list charitable donations by any of these people. Seems to me we have a social contract whereby the government, in its infinite wisdom, takes tax monies and redistributes those dollars to the needy and to the supposedly altruistic institutions, both public and private, for the general welfare. If someone feels he/she wishes to do more, kudos to them. I must say, however, that the average Joe who only throws a twenty in the basket each Sunday seems to have given more in some years by that act alone than Gore and Biden contributed anywhere. Very curious, but whose business?
Ed, I think it’s our business when it reveals such hypocrisy on the part of so many tax and spend Dems. They want to spread everyone else’s money around, but not their own. Just like Charlie Rangel the tax and subsidized apartments cheat being in charge of Ways and Means.
And Gore, who portrays himself as the savior of the earth, flies around in a private jet, and his own home has an electric bill that is about as high as the entire city of Peekskill’s.