Who Walks the Walk

This is par for the course, liberals want to be taxed for charity, conservatives want the choice to give where they see fit.

interesting info.. good looks on this, ima have to look more into this.. havent really kept up with the presidential electees lately..

This is just more proof that 0bama is a lot of empty rhetoric. 0bama is real big on talking about charity and how we seem to owe the rest of the world a living because of our relative wealth through things like the Global Anti-Poverty Act, yet when it comes down to looking act the records, this shows that he does not practice what he preaches. So much for the perception that he "cares" more than McCain.

What we actually need is a middle ground, but in politics it seems like it is always either feast or famine.

So you really got me thinking bob about something I hadn't thought too much about. So I started doing some research. Did you know that between 2001 and 2006 John Mcacin was the sole donor to the John and Cindy McCain Foundation (his wife is chairman and president). He donated $950,000 to this "charity". In respect to full disclosure there was one other donation, $100 by an anonymous donor. More than $500,000 of that money went to his childrens private schools, while they were attending there. So McCain gets major tax breaks by donating money to his own charity who supports the high end schools his kids attend? I wish I had his accountant. And then there's the donations that McCain made to the Schilling foundation in January, which came after Curt Schilling endorsed McCain and made commercials for him. And if I remember correctly all charitable donations are tax deductible, so it would make sense that McCain tops the list in contributions, him and Cindy have way more income than Obama, Bush or Biden. Possibly combined. Who wouldn't want that tax deduction? Now in all fairness it appears that Obama didn't really start contibuting until he reached the US Senate. But the contributions have been to causes such as $45K to reading programs, $31K to an international aid group, and $5K to a dance troupe that Michelle serves on the board of directors for. Certainly not donations that benefitted them as greatly as McCains appear to. I also found out that Senator Obama has used his high profile to make speaking engagements at fundraisers, free of charge, for not for profit groups. And that draws more attention and money than just donating a few thousand dollars. Last time I checked you couldn't use time as a tax deduction. Good discussion bob, it really shed some light on an issue I never would've really thought about.

I think that is a very important thing to look at. After all whoever our next President will be will be handling massive amounts of money. I'm all for helping out middle class ppl (as BO wants to do) but it's the lower class ppl that end up hit the hardest. While the middle class are upset b/c their vacation to Disneyworld might be off the lower class are trying to figure out how their going to pay their rent or buy food for their kids. I'd like to see a canidate that wants to start at the bottom and work up instead of starting at the top or middle and ignoring the bottom all together. [b]**AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~[/b]