The biggest liberals and socialists are also the biggest cheapskates. Because, in the words of Animal Farm, they are more equal than you.
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The guy lives in a 4,700-square-foot home, according to the AP, and as of 2015 had a personal net worth of $9 million. His father-in-law is a bona fide real-estate tycoon who’s worth around $500 million by Forbes’s estimate. According to his newly released tax returns, he and his wife had income in 2017 of $370,412. Asked recently whether he’d support a wealth tax, O’Rourke answered in the affirmative: “I think fundamental to this experiment of America and democracy is ensuring we don’t have princes and princesses, kings and queens, a concentration of wealth and power and privilege, and that’s exactly what we have in this country right now.”
Total amount donated to charity in 2017: $1,166. Or 0.3 percent.
If you’re wondering whether that was an off-year for him in charitable giving, let Andrew Stiles set you straight:
O’Rourke, who released ten years worth of tax returns, has done well for himself over the years, but has not made a habit of donating a significant portion of his income to charity. Despite reporting an average annual income of $340,613 between 2008 and 2017, the candidate donated an average of just $2,430 to charity per year during that time, or 0.7 percent.
That’s considerably less than the average donation by Americans in lower income brackets. According to IRS data from 2016, Americans earning between $200,000 and $250,000 reported an average of $5,472 in charitable contributions, or about 2 percent of total income. It’s also less than half of what Joe Biden reported on his 2011 tax return (1.5 percent of total income in charitable donations), which resulted in the former veep being ridiculed as a cheapskate.
Per Stiles, in 2015 O’Rourke donated just $867 to charity, a rate of just 0.2 percent. How does he stack up with other Democratic candidates? Not well:
@JHWeissmann Here's how much of their income 2020 Dems gave to charity in 2017:
Beto - 0.31% (no, that's not a typo)
Harris - 1.4%
Gillibrand - 1.7%
Klobuchar - 1.9%
Sanders - 3.4%
Inslee - 4%
Warren - 5.5%
Why does it not surprise me that Warren leads the pack?
The Daily 202: Tax returns show 2020 candidates gave to charity, but not a ton Beto O’Rourke gave one-third of 1 percent.
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The guy lives in a 4,700-square-foot home, according to the AP, and as of 2015 had a personal net worth of $9 million. His father-in-law is a bona fide real-estate tycoon who’s worth around $500 million by Forbes’s estimate. According to his newly released tax returns, he and his wife had income in 2017 of $370,412. Asked recently whether he’d support a wealth tax, O’Rourke answered in the affirmative: “I think fundamental to this experiment of America and democracy is ensuring we don’t have princes and princesses, kings and queens, a concentration of wealth and power and privilege, and that’s exactly what we have in this country right now.”
Total amount donated to charity in 2017: $1,166. Or 0.3 percent.
If you’re wondering whether that was an off-year for him in charitable giving, let Andrew Stiles set you straight:
O’Rourke, who released ten years worth of tax returns, has done well for himself over the years, but has not made a habit of donating a significant portion of his income to charity. Despite reporting an average annual income of $340,613 between 2008 and 2017, the candidate donated an average of just $2,430 to charity per year during that time, or 0.7 percent.
That’s considerably less than the average donation by Americans in lower income brackets. According to IRS data from 2016, Americans earning between $200,000 and $250,000 reported an average of $5,472 in charitable contributions, or about 2 percent of total income. It’s also less than half of what Joe Biden reported on his 2011 tax return (1.5 percent of total income in charitable donations), which resulted in the former veep being ridiculed as a cheapskate.
Per Stiles, in 2015 O’Rourke donated just $867 to charity, a rate of just 0.2 percent. How does he stack up with other Democratic candidates? Not well:
@JHWeissmann Here's how much of their income 2020 Dems gave to charity in 2017:
Beto - 0.31% (no, that's not a typo)
Harris - 1.4%
Gillibrand - 1.7%
Klobuchar - 1.9%
Sanders - 3.4%
Inslee - 4%
Warren - 5.5%
Why does it not surprise me that Warren leads the pack?
The Daily 202: Tax returns show 2020 candidates gave to charity, but not a ton Beto O’Rourke gave one-third of 1 percent.
