Last week Fox News carried a report about the charitable donations made by Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris in 2021.
It revealed that Joe and Jill Biden reported $610,702 in
income for 2021 and paid $183,925 in federal and state income taxes. They
donated $17,394 to charity i.e. roughly 2.8%.
Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff earned $1,655,563 in
2021 and paid $523,371 in federal income taxes. They donated $22,100 to
charity i.e. roughly 1.3%
Both figures are lesser than American families making
between $500,000 and $2 million, who donate around 3.1% of their salary according
to 2016 data from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
For the Bidens, it was 0.3 % less than the average charitable
deduction for Americans while for the Harrises it was a significant 1.8 % less
than the average charitable deduction for Americans.
How much an individual donates to charity is strictly their
personal affair. The spending habits of individuals, even public figures, should be no concern of any third party unless the pursuits are illegal. In a free country, people are allowed to spend as they desire. They can splash all their money on the great luxuries of life or they can donate
copiously to charity.
The sole reason that the charitable donations from the
Bidens and Harrises deserve scrutiny is to verify if they follow the principles
they relentlessly advocate.
Both Harris and Bien have complained that the rich do not pay
their fair share.
https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1145804268202418177
https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/976249548678029312
The Biden administration claimed that lessening the disparity in income between the wealthiest and the rest of the populace is among the top priorities. They prescribed two solutions. The first is to heavily tax the wealthiest within the US. The second is to provide welfare payments to regular people via their $1.9 trillion relief package.
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Do they not realize that if the rich are taxed heavily they will have no incentive to invest in US companies. They will merely transfer their businesses and finances to business-friendly countries. The result is higher unemployment within the US. This has been happening for ages with manufacturing jobs being outsourced.
Providing welfare benefits to the needy is worthy, e.g. a
single mother who is in poor health deserves support to survive herself and
feed her family. However, if the government pays able-bodied people just
because they are from a specific income bracket, there is no incentive to work.
The workforce is reduced and businesses, especially small businesses struggle.
The only way to reduce income inequality is to remove gratuitous regulations and reduce taxes. This causes investors to have more money to invest and consumers to have more money to spend. This is exactly what President Trump did and he ended up enriching groups from all demographics. It even enriched the government. The prosperity increased the number of taxpayers which is infinitely better than extracting more from a small group of taxpayers.
Tackling income inequality has been a Democrat idea since the
60s, perhaps even before that. In 1963, President Kennedy initiated planning
for what became the “War
on Poverty” to resolve income inequality. Subsequent Democrat Presidents
such as Johnson, Carter, Obama, and now Biden frequently talk about this need
to lessen the gap between incomes.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher exposed the mindset of the left when they talk about income disparity
https://youtu.be/okHGCz6xxiw
They could be excused if they were sincere. But like all Democrat utterances, these are empty words i.e. virtue signaling to feign concern for the less fortunate. The Democrat base is not, as they would like you to think, lower-income individuals, it is in fact the very wealthy from Corporate America and Showbiz.
This explains why most Democrat pet issues have nothing to do
with the empowerment or upliftment of regular people which would lessen the
income gaps.
Open borders cause an influx of illegal immigrants who often
work for very low wages and no benefits. This causes regular working citizens
to either be rendered unemployed or suffer depression in wages. The
beneficiaries are big businesses that need cheap seasonal fruit pickers in
their orchards.
What about Climate change or Obamacare? The result of
overregulation or government mandates insurance is small businesses have to waste their money to meet gratuitous standards rather than invest in growth and adding more employees.
The result is their profits either dwindle or they cannot sustain themselves and
shut down. Who benefits, from this? Big businesses can afford to survive
despite over-regulations.
What about law and order? Violence and gang warfare due to Democrat misgovernance or call for defunding the police cause instability. The result is existing
businesses are destroyed and investors refrain from investing in local businesses. When a
small business shuts down it causes local unemployment. The customer base is
transferred to big businesses.
The draconian lockdowns for prolonged periods of time hurt regular people. Small businesses suffer losses and could be compelled to close forever. The Democrats in government who made these lockdown rules and the Democrats in media who promote these rules have the luxury of working from home. Big businesses can also tolerate losses.
The vaccine mandates also have compelled regular people to quit their jobs causing strain on small businesses.
Hence, contrary to what they claim, every item on the Democrat agenda is the real cause of loss and unemployment
for the working class which results in widening income inequality
Back to the Biden and Harris, if they really want the rich
to pay their 'fair share' they could have been the change they claim to want and
donated a significant portion of their income and savings. This would reduce
their bank balance and bring them closer to regular Americans.
Despite never making any tall claims or virtue signaling, it
was President Donald Trump who donated
his salary to various initiatives of national significance. The first
$100,000 went to the
National Park Service. Subsequently, he donated to various federal
departments. Trump donated the last two-quarters of his 2019 salary and the
first quarter of his 2020 salary to the Department of Health and Human Service
specifically for COVID-19 and the U.S. opioid crisis.
The real goal behind this relentless Democrat talk about inequality is
to cause class warfare that
results in resentment, bitterness, and jealousy which they direct at
Republicans.
Vilifying the rich and talking about punishing taxes is their
way of making people vote on Schadenfreude i.e. some Democrat voters may derive pleasure
from the thought that the rich will suffer. In reality,
nothing of the kind occurs because the Democrats are the party of the
super-rich Donors.
Biden and Harris’s paltry charity donations should be another
wake-up call for voters regarding the Democrats. Judge them solely by what they
do not by what they say and vote them out.
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