This election is turning into a circus. We have the largest collection of duds in recent memory. Trump is bad. Clinton is bad. If you like money, Sanders is bad. The best thing that can happen at this point is for us to allow Obama to have a 3rd term until we can find some proper candidates.
Obama is bad, been bad. No 3rd term, not allowed... No way...
Sanders did alright as mayor of Burlington. But rest of his stay in public office has been meh, ineffective grandstanding.
I like some of his schtick, just this hate of money is hoot... cause... that clown is pulling $156k~ salary, his wife is retired college president (assuming she got paid real good and collects retirement cashola) and they both collected north of $40k last year from social security. Total income north of $200k... Which puts them in like top I don't know what of all people globally but confidently say top 5%. Then from there, you'd think he would be all generous about giving away his own money right? Shit dawg, that swank high roller gave something like
$8,350 to charity according to his public numbers... which isn't a piss drop in a bucket. So I say f*ck it, this cat is faking the funk. Time for him to stop being such a tightwad greedy ... yeah...
$8350 vs. $200k strong of income is like 4.1% giving. 4.1% giving is moronic. 10% is standard tithing for church go'ers of steady income. Many people give quite a bit more by the time they contribute to civic, social, community, political, etc. Why? Cause it lowers tax bill. Ship the funds to people and entities in your locality than shipping money to government afar that does nothing useful with it and arguably does more harm than good. Same government TheBern loves / hates depending on when you are paying attention.
What's the IRS say about charitable giving?
Generally, you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases
source:
https://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Charitable-Organizations/Charitable-Contribution-Deductions
And to thing, the out of touch Bezos owned Washington-rag Post said:
"[Sanders]
reported relatively modest income last year"
Modest my a$$. This cat is living high on the hog. His wife got a golden parachute at point where she was basically fired as president of Burlington College, a cool $200k for being a screw up.
Seriously, for a guy that bashes the successful and says high taxes on $250k and above earners, tad ironic that his own life is in the neighborhood... And that he's personally worth at least $2 million... But all his assets are sitting in his second wifes name, not his. Can you say structuring and hiding assets? Probably for the best, cause as much as he talks about handing freebies out, perhaps when the dementia settles in, he'd get to being generous with his own scratch.
