So now I’m supposed to care how much of Romney’s money he gave away, voluntarily or not. Does that go for all the candidates? Bloomberg News reported back in March 2008:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign.
The Obamas increased the amount they gave to charity when their income rose in 2005 and 2006 after the Illinois senator published a bestselling book. The $137,622 they gave over those two years amounted to more than 5 percent of their $2.6 million income.
Giving your money to charity is annoying, because you have to choose how much money you give and who gets it. Why bother? You should pay that money in taxes instead. That way, the government gets its cut and then passes along as much of the rest as it finds appropriate, to those it finds appropriate. What makes you think you can figure that out for yourself, stupid?
Biden gave even less to charity than Obama, an average of $369 a year. But so what? They should be glad for every penny. Whereas Mitt Romney has given a significant proportion of his money away, but it doesn’t count because he’s a Mormon. (And a “racist”!)
Nathan Wurtzel puts it best: “I’d like to thank Mitt Romney for being so generous with his money and Joe Biden for being so generous with our money.”