{"id":1347,"date":"2019-04-16T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:08:55","slug":"bernie-sanders-generous-with-everyone-elses-not-so-much-with-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders: generous with everyone else&#8217;s $$$, not so much with his own."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a47cb583200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bernie sanders\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a47cb583200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a47cb583200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Bernie sanders\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sanders is not much for charitable giving &#8211; in fact he&#39;s a cheap SOB. From the Daily Beast, a rather &quot;progressive&quot; online magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/bernie-sanders-donated-226-to-charity-tax-returns-show?source=articles&amp;via=rss\">The documents show that over the years, Sanders\u2019 income ranged from $205,617 to $1.1 million, while his charitable giving ranged from less than 1 percent to just over 4 percent depending on the year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Last year, Sanders\u2019 total income was $566, 421 and he donated $18,950 or 3.35 percent. In 2017, his income was $1.1 million and he gave away $36,300 or 3.15 percent. The year before that he also made more than $1 million but donated $10,600 or less than 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>1%? Of course that&#39;s five times more than Joe Biden gave on many of his returns. Shameful.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders is not much for charitable giving &#8211; in fact he&#39;s a cheap SOB. From the Daily Beast, a rather &quot;progressive&quot; online magazine. The documents show that over the years, Sanders\u2019 income ranged from $205,617 to $1.1 million, while his charitable giving ranged from less than 1 percent to just over 4 percent depending on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}