Posted on 09/12/2008 11:36:40 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Delaware Senator Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for vice president, and his wife reported giving less than half of one percent of their income to charity during the past decade, below the national average, tax records show.
A Biden spokesman said the couple has given more to charity than they claimed on their taxes.
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.
Their deductions for charitable giving -- about two-tenths of one percent of their income -- is lower than the national average of about 3.1 percent, according to JustGive.org, a nonprofit organization that connects donors with charities.
``That lack of charitable giving at that level of income would definitely be outside the range of what we say is normal,'','' said Russell James, a professor at the University of Georgia who researches charitable giving.
Biden spokesman David Wade said the deductions on the tax forms ``are not the sum of their annual contributions to charity.'' The Bidens ``contribute to their church, and they also contribute to their favorite causes.'' He said the Bidens also do volunteer work with military families and for other causes.
Hey, those plugs aren’t cheap.
Even worse than Obama. Together, they are Cheap and Cheaper.
Way to give ‘til it hurts Joe.
ALGORE gave $350.00 to charity one year!! Democrats are STINGY.....with their OWN money.
Stand up, Chuck.
But he “gave” BILLIONS of dollars of other people’s money to those in need...
Joe will have plenty of time to do charity work once he blows it for Barry and gets drilled out of the party for robbing the Lightworker of his date with destiny.
lol
“Biden spokesman David Wade..”
Wasn’t he Kerry’s spokesman in 2004?
BTW, did you know Kerry was in Vietnam?
He was able to be so generous because he hits taxpayers up for $200 dollars or more a day to pay for his daily train ride back and forth to Delaware.
But we can’t even deduct the cost of travel back and forth to work.
Right. And favorite cause must be the Joe Biden foundation to promote joe biden.
Actually, I think Biden will probably be fine after Obama loses. The long knives will come out for Obama and his supporters, as the Clintons take over the party.
Then they should fire their accountant for not claiming it.
What a weasel.
Oh, whatever. It's just typical Joe Biden.
Does that include gifts to their churches?
That’s pathetic. We’re Catholic just like Joe, haven’t made as much as him over the years, but my wife and I give more than that just to our parish — and many multiples of that to about 20-30 charities per year (grade schools, high schools, colleges, relief organizations, Freedom Alliance, Semper Fi fund, cancer research, downs support groups, etc.)
Oh man...I’m such an idiot. I forgot that Joe has given millions — make that billions — to the poor and needy of our country.
Typical Liberal charity and hypocrisy. They only want to take your money but never give up their own money.
The father than said, "I think there's something you kids need to know. Your mom and I got married without the requisite marriage license because my unit was being shipped to Korea."
The kids looked at each other. The brightest one of them then gasp, "You mean, we're ...?" but wasn't able to mouth the word "bastards".
The father nodded, "Yup. And cheap ones too!"
no wonder they want the government to handle charitable organizations, they know how cheap the elite can be!
Biden is releasing his last 10 tax returns as a ploy to force Palin to do the same so that can continue to milk that lame “per diem” story should there be any discrepancies. They think they can get away with it because Biden likes to brag that he is one of the poorest guys in the Senate (a testament to the fact that you don’t need cash when MBNA and the trial lawyers are comping every meal). Guess they forgot about this.
Thats more than I gave...
The Bidens ``contribute to their church, and they also contribute to their favorite causes.”
Ha, so he’s giving less $6 a week when the basket’s passed at Mass? My poor grandmother gave more 30 years ago.
-any donations go to abortion?
Three days before he took the oath for Vice President, Cheney donated $7.8 million to charity, his entire Halburton holdings. Cheney received no income tax deduction for that donation
Jerk Biden is a tightwad sack of jackass manure.
$369 annually? That much, huh? Really, really pathetic!!!!!!!!!
Stingy, clutching bastard
He will personally perform them for free.
Plugs is cheap.
He can’t claim the charitable donations he makes from public coffers from his personal income taxes. Rest assured, however, that’s a bill to be unveiled in a future session of Congress, to be sure.
I did. I have a photo on the wall from when that dope went to the Senate in ‘04 to cast some anti-gun vote. It’s the shot of Kerry with Schumer, Feinstein and Teddy Kennedy. There’s a ballon from Kerry’s mouth, and he’s saying “Did I ever tell you I was in Vietnam? I was a war hero over there in Vietnam. In Vietnam, I carried a gun, but I don’t think regular people need guns because they’re not in Vietnam being war heroes. I don’t need a gun now, because I’m not in Vietnam being a war hero anymore, but I was, once. In Vietnam, I once pulled a guy out of a river. Oh,...sorry, Ted.”
"It's conjugal visit day. You know how much I like doing a woman in the can." -Glen Quagmire
That’s not a good Catholic.
Add Clinton and Gore to the List...These Socialist democrats NEVER practice what they Preach.
lying scumbags...every one of them.
LOL at last line
Hell, I give more than that every two weeks.
I know people in My Church on Fixed incomes Half of what the Bidens claim, I personaly saw the checks they gave...300$ a week not counting the extra gifts all the rest of the year.
these elitist Rats are a bunch of dirtwads.
Democritter tithing.
That's so old, the line played out years ago.
I make $35K and give more than that between my Kiwanis and Knights of Columbus and it never occured to me to claim it.
It still works. I get the pleasure of voting against Jean Francois Tues. in the Dem. primary.(Registered as unenrolled, one of the few things that makes sense here in the People’s Republic of Mass.)
Why would anyone think Palin’s per diems weren’t captured in her W-2? It’s pretty simple payroll function.
Yes, I feel I don’t give enough to my church, but I give more than the Bidens do, and I have four kids, and my income is MUCH less. He should be ashamed of taking communion based on his giving alone!
Why would Plugs declared minimal charity expenses if he made bigger contributions elsewhere that he didn’t claim?
For a lot of people, church donations are big enough and easy enough to document, so if anything charitable was on your tax return it would be that, yet no so for Joe.
Hey Plugs, you’re a liar.
The least he could have done was donate the amount of money he’s reimbursed for his Amtrak rides every day.
Democrats and Liberals, as a class, believe in outsourcing charity. They think the government should be a charitable institution.
Skinflint!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know, if the average liberal gave as much to charity as the average conservative, we wouldn’t need any government welfare programs!!!
Wow. An entire dollar a day.
I’ll bet he tips well too.
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