Senator John McCain’s charitable works don’t appear to be terribly impressive. As I reported here a few months back, he has essentially been the sole contributor to the John and Cindy McCain Family foundation, which between 2001 and 2006 made contributions of roughly $1.6 million, of which more than $500,000 went to his kids’ private schools. So McCain apparently received major tax deductions for supporting elite schools attended by his children.
Last Friday, wife Cindy — heiress to Hensley & Co. and a major Anheuser-Busch distributor—whose net worth is approximately $100 million — “cav to overwhelming pressure…and finally released a two page summary of her 2006 tax return,” reports perrspectives.com. “A quick glance at the filing explains her hesitation to let her tax returns see the light of day. As it turns out, Mrs. McCain gave only 1% of her $6 million income to charity in 2006.” And just like her husband, most of her contributions “went to private schools attended by her children.”
Note: Perrspectives.com added an update to say, “It is not possible to gauge the full scope of Mrs. McCain’s charitable contributions based solely on the limited disclosure Friday… Her may well have given more than 1% of her $6 million income to charity in 2006 from separate assets. But without either the release of her full return—or a statement from the McCain campaign—we’ll never know.”
Give it up with the wealth distribution, especially the 'YOUR WEALTH' part of it.
Your party redistributed MY WEALTH to the top 1% over 8 years ago on the long-winded and false promise of trickle-down economics and that did NOT work.
The GOP way == tried and failed.
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Reward Republicans for 8 years of failure? No way, No how, No McCain!
Speaking of spreading the income around, looks like many democrats chose to give their extra money to the obama campaign. He has over 600 million raised so far and they project at the end of october he is expected to surpass $695.7 million. uggh no wonder our economy is tanking, people are giving money to him instead of putting it into the economy! maybe that money would have been better spent on their kids education, or even put into the stock market. Here's the article: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/obama-raises-record-breaking-m/
Um, have you looked at how the tax rates are distributed under Bush43? OUR wealth is already spread around to benefit the RICH. Why haven't you protested that for the last 7 1/2 years?
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<You know what's funny? the folks of Hollywood, aren't bellyaching about the thought of paying more taxes, I've only read it in here!>
I watched Bill Maher (I know - comedy talkshow), and Ben Affleck was on with Martin Short.
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Exactly, the only place I have seen whining and bellyaching is in here! Did you read the links i posted on who doesn't pay federal tax?
Sopal
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John and Cindy are much more generous, aren't they? Well, at least to their kids' private schools, LOL!!!
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/hbc-90003001
Cindy McCain: Like Hubby, Not So Charitable
By Ken Silverstein
Senator John McCain’s charitable works don’t appear to be terribly impressive. As I reported here a few months back, he has essentially been the sole contributor to the John and Cindy McCain Family foundation, which between 2001 and 2006 made contributions of roughly $1.6 million, of which more than $500,000 went to his kids’ private schools. So McCain apparently received major tax deductions for supporting elite schools attended by his children.
Last Friday, wife Cindy — heiress to Hensley & Co. and a major Anheuser-Busch distributor—whose net worth is approximately $100 million — “cav to overwhelming pressure…and finally released a two page summary of her 2006 tax return,” reports perrspectives.com. “A quick glance at the filing explains her hesitation to let her tax returns see the light of day. As it turns out, Mrs. McCain gave only 1% of her $6 million income to charity in 2006.” And just like her husband, most of her contributions “went to private schools attended by her children.”
Note: Perrspectives.com added an update to say, “It is not possible to gauge the full scope of Mrs. McCain’s charitable contributions based solely on the limited disclosure Friday… Her may well have given more than 1% of her $6 million income to charity in 2006 from separate assets. But without either the release of her full return—or a statement from the McCain campaign—we’ll never know.”
http://www.johnmccain.com/downloads/mccainfinancial/final/2006_990Foundation_ScheduleF.pdf
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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM
Give it up with the wealth distribution, especially the 'YOUR WEALTH' part of it.
Your party redistributed MY WEALTH to the top 1% over 8 years ago on the long-winded and false promise of trickle-down economics and that did NOT work.
The GOP way == tried and failed.
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Reward Republicans for 8 years of failure? No way, No how, No McCain!
Sopal
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