Posted on 04/04/2008 1:50:59 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton report nearly $109.2 million in income for seven years in newly released tax data.
The Democratic presidential candidate and her husband paid $33.8 million in taxes from 2000 through 2007. They listed $10.25 million in charitable contributions during that period.
Clinton has been under pressure to release her tax returns, especially from rival Barack Obama, who posted his 2000 to 2006 returns on his campaign Web site last week. Neither Obama nor Republican Sen. John McCain have made their 2007 tax returns public, though both say they will this month.
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I don’t have a Thesaurus with me. What is another word for scum?
Hmm, wonder which charities they gave so much money to. Hamas? ACLU? Planned Parenthood?
The hypocrites are playing the class warfare game and they are the only Presidential couple in history who have made so much money only because they were in the White House for 8 years.
Any bets on whether their 10 mil charitable donation went into some foundation they control?
In 1953 as Harry Truman was leaving the White House for the last time as president he noticed that he had a pencil in his shirt pocket that said “The White House”.
He carefully put it on the desk in the oval office to leave it for Ike. He thought that was the right thing to do.
He retired to his very modest home in Independence, Mo and never took a penny for speeches or anything else.
He thought that was the right thing to do.
I do know another term for SCUM -— C L I N T O N
please don’t insult scum like that
10% ain't all that generous for this income bracket. Besides, I wonder what "charities" these were, the DNC? Air America? DemocraticUnderground.com?
2000-2007 isnt that that dreaded Bush Economy!
108Million Fricken Dollars!
Bad news always gets dumped on Friday afternoons.
They are smarter than that. I bet there’s half a mil in there for the NRA and the John Birch Society.
DOUBTING THOMAS WANTS PROOF OF THIS REPORT!
Could we ask them to return the pension and pay for the Secret Service?
I think the Clintons think themselves to be immortal or they are Athiests. I would be so damned scared of dying and meeting my God.
This needs to be in the breaking news section.
Mucus
id est green ookey stuff that drips from the nose and in this case two anni!
Hillarys election campaigns.
they made a deal with the devil a long time ago
I want the 7 years broken down....I want to SEE the Tax Reports!! I’m betting they are LYING THEIR ASSES OFF!
Ha! That’s just what came into the US and was reported.
Just remember that Republicans and conservatives get rich because of they're evil and greedy while Democrats become rich largely by accident.
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Where are the details? Anyone have a link to anything more meaty than the AP’s take on this “release”?
This is smelling like Kerry’s “release” of his military records to his pal (also his biographer) at the Globe.
Focusing on how much they paid in taxes and to charities is exactly what they want us to do...actually what they want the MEDIA to do.
There’s a lot more to it than that. Sources of income should be the first order of intense questioning.
You’re right. That has to be the only logical explanation. But can the back down from their pact with the Devil? I hope they can.
[low husky voice] "aaah don't need the tax cuts... "[/end low husky voice]
Now think about this folks, the Clintons have more money than they can possibly spend in a lifetime, they could literally do anything, go anywhere, live in whatever palatial estate they please, surround themselves with servants to attend to their every need, but Hiliarly and Bubba want to return to the White House.
If that doesn’t demonstrate an insatiable lust for personal political power, I don’t know what does.
AMEN!! You are SO right!! We need to SEE the TAX REPORT!!
Aren’t these the people who raised money from their supporters for their legal defense fund?
It is unnatural and demonic.
they are making more than this! The money they have earned they invest and make millions more!
I know Clinton is a big business man. My father’s business partner got a call from Clinton himself about a deal going down between a friend of CLinton and the dad and his partner. He wanted in on it to make some big money.
I feel their pain.
I guess Bush’s economy has done well by the Clintons.’
Some of the most richest people in American politics are liberal democrates, so when you hear them speak “I feel your pain” the answer is “No not really” They have made every attempt to demonize the oil execs, corporate America, and especially the conservative republicans as the “rich” who are cheating the poor, that if you are middleclass family making 75,000 to 100,000 you are now targeted by the RICH Democratic liberals as RICH and we to are now the enemy of the poor. HYPOCRITES! ALL OF THEM! DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO
in the ‘92 campaign the clintons called the 80s the ‘decade of greed’.
We're supposed to be happy to settle for AP's "analysis" of the returns, you're not supposed to actually see the data yourself.
This is starting to feel like another snowjob.
The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation for Sexual Healing.
Not bad for a couple “...facing homelessness” as the beast told us in 2000.
Rabble
Me too however I WANT TO SEE THE 2007 RETURNS! I believe therein lies a story they don't want the public to see.
NO ONE should take the Clintons WORD or the Media’s WORD for ANYTHING!! I want to SEE THE TAX FORMS!!!!!
What IDIOT would just BELIEVE this crap without SEEING THE FORMS???
Let's not forget the White House silverware, china and furnishings along with the 'Gift List' they put together so supporters could increase the haul.
These people are involved in both Petty and Grand Theft. Nothing is to small or beneath them.
“(Truman)...retired to his very modest home in Independence, Mo and never took a penny for speeches or anything else.”
Any subsequent Presidents have similar scruples?
Dick Morris was just on Fox News and he figured there’s $15 mil unaccounted for. He said it was for Bill’s work with some sleaze bag outfit that sells elderly people’s names to companies that target them for scams. He also said a big portion of the money came from the Emir of Dubai. He said it shows a strong conflict of interest of a spouse of a Presidential candidate taking money from a country. I hope more comes out of this. The Clintons need to go away. Any federal prison will do.
You are correct!
www.ClintonFoundation.org
Rush talked about this when they established the foundation, saying they would be able to take a large tax deduction for their donation.
Statement of Jay Carson
Clinton Campaign Spokesman
April 4, 2008
Today Senator Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton are releasing their tax returns for the years 2000 through 2006, and are providing information regarding their 2007 taxes as well.
The Clintons have now made public thirty years of tax returns, a record matched by few people in public service. None of Hillary Clinton’s presidential opponents have revealed anything close to this amount of personal financial information.
What the Clintons’ tax returns show is that they paid more than $33,000,000 in federal taxes and donated more than $10,000,000 to charities over the past eight years. They paid taxes and made charitable contributions at a higher rate than taxpayers at their income level.
TAXES PAID: $33,783,507
The Clintons paid $33,783,507 in federal taxes - 31% of their adjusted gross income. According to the most recent data available from the IRS, in 2005 taxpayers earning $10,000,000 or more paid on average 20.8% of their adjusted gross income in taxes.
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS: $10,256,741
The Clintons donated $10,256,741 to charity - 9.5% of their adjusted gross income. According to the most recent data available from the IRS, in 2005 taxpayers earning $10,000,000 or more contributed 3.1% of their adjusted gross income in cash contributions to charity. Information about the Clinton Family Foundation, including a list of charities to which the Clintons contributed through the Foundation, is available online in the Foundation’s publicly available tax returns (www.foundationcenter.org).
AFTER TAX EARNINGS: $57,157,297
CUMULATIVE TOTAL(GROSS) INCOME: $109,175,175
Including, among other items:
Senator Clinton’s Senate Salary: $1,051,606
President Clinton’s Presidential Pension: $1,217,250
Senator Clinton’s Book Income: $10,457,083
President Clinton’s Book Income: $29,580,525
President Clinton’s Speech Income: $51,855,599
SENATOR CLINTON’S BOOK INCOME: $10,457,083
Senator Clinton’s book income is comprised of earnings for Living History ($10,267,895), including an $8,000,000 advance, and It Takes a Village ($189,188). The earnings for It Takes a Village were donated to charity. Since the release of It Takes a Village in 1996, Senator Clinton has donated over $1,100,000 to charity.
PRESIDENT CLINTON’S BOOK INCOME: $29,580,525
President Clinton’s book income is comprised of earnings for My Life ($23,280,525), including a $15,000,000 advance, and Giving ($6,300,000). The President donated $1,000,000 of his income from Giving in 2007 to charity.
PRESIDENT CLINTON’S SPEECH INCOME: $51,855,599
NOTE: The figures in this summary include 2007 estimates.
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