Showing posts with label Charitable Giving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charitable Giving. Show all posts

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Republican Wise Ass Rep. Dale Kooyenga's advice to rich who don't want tax cut; give it to charity.

Where do bad accountants go, like Dumb Ron Johnson? Into politics of course. We've got another one. More on that shortly.

It seems Republicans can’t stop making condescending comments to the public. As adults, we should be getting fed up with this stuff.

On WPR’s Joy Cardin radio program, a caller who made over $100,000 a year complained she didn't need the tax cut, and that it should have been geared to those with much lower incomes.

On his way to pose for holy pictures, accountant and Republican Rep. Dale Kooyenga called in to give his self-righteous advice to the concerned carry citizen; give the surplus to her church or charity:


Kooyenga could have targeted to those tax cuts to those who really needed them. Instead, he broadly gave them out to the wealthy who’ll obviously get the most money back:
A memo from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau showed almost 55 percent of the tax cut would go to people who make more than $100,000 or more.  
Kooyenga’s response? 
"We are just giving back what people have paid us, and it's in proportion to what was paid, nothing more, nothing less."
He could have easily suggested taking that unwanted surplus and hand it over to his reelection campaign.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Charitable giving to Churches; 32%. Charitable giving to the Poor: 12%.

Charitable giving always implies helping the poor eat and get shelter. But did you know it also includes putting money during church service?

According to this chart at Wonk Blog, the poor are getting way less.