Isn't it 109 Mill over seven years?  Still a hell of a lot

With so many Americans lacking good health care coverage, is it really fair that the Clintons be allowed to keep all this money?

They should at least give up the speech money.  How hard is it to make a speech.  Certainly not as hard as teaching an entire class of children.  How many school teachers could be hired with this money?

They released the tax data about 12 days earlier than they promised (the Clintons had said they would get it out on 4/16).

That means they think the news ($109 Million in income especially) will hurt them so they must be hoping they can mitigate the damage in the next 18 days up til the 4/22 primary in Pennsylvania.

If you drill down a bit, you can see they are averaging (each) somewhere around...

$6.66 million a year.  Each of them.

Probably just a co-incidence.

Did they deduct Bill's underwear?

Sounds like sombody needs a tax increase.

Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton..... How do all these socialists get so fucking rich?

On the Daily Kos, there are actually some liberals upset about this.

I didn't like Clinton, but he forwent a lot of big jack for a lot of years.  he could have been making real money on Wall Street instead of living in Little Rock making $50K a year as the Arkansas Gov (I shit you not).

Let him earn his money.  I hope he has three sugar babies.

I didn't like Clinton, but he forwent a lot of big jack for a lot of years.  he could have been making real money on Wall Street instead of living in Little Rock making $50K a year as the Arkansas Gov (I shit you not

Seriously what would he have done on Wall Street?  

headhunt23 at April 04, 2008 05:23 PM (OMCBg)

Yea, well first of all you have to remember he was living in government housing all those years in Arkansas, I believe they call it the Governor's mansion, with state provided autos, state health care, etc., etc.  And living in Ark in the 80's, $50k was equal to big money in America.

Hey, I don't give a wet fart if he makes 8o gazillion.  I just don't want to listen to him preach about the politics of meaning and practicing class warfare as if he was living on a fixed income.

Seriously what would he have done on Wall Street?  

Posted by: polynikes at April 04, 2008 05:30 PM (m2CN7)

Use your imagination. And think "cigar".

That hillarys gonna make shur I keep my job buuurrrrrp

WTF!!! Their "charitable contributions" were to their own family foundation:

[....] "During that time, the Clintons paid $33.8 million in federal taxes and claimed deductions for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. The contributions went to a family foundation run by the Clintons that has given away only about half of the money they put into it, and most of that was last year, after Mrs. Clinton declared her candidacy.[...]

[...] "The Clintons took a tax deduction in 2004 for $2.5 million in charitable gifts, $2 million of which went to their family foundation, which as a tax-exempt nonprofit is considered a charity under the tax code. That same year, the foundation gave away just $221,000 to charitable groups, according to its tax return. [...]

Cannot really understand where they got the money from. I have read "Blood Sport" by James Stewart a few times and there seems to be a theme that the Clintons never had any money for the longest time. So, where did it all come from? People couldn't have bought that many of their crappy books. He can't be giving that many speeches. When they bought a house in New York to establish residency for her to run for office I thought that they barely had funds to do that. 

Yeah Hillary's a real man of the people all right

Poor girl- tripping over big piles of $100s cuz her diamond shoes are too tight

fuck these people

I understand the charity the Clintons donated to the most was...

(wait for it...)

The William J. Clinton Foundation

Brilliant! Give the money to yourself, and write it off! I love this country!