LOL! in 2008 and in 2014: Most of Clinton's "Charity" Donations Went to Clinton Foundation

[amborin]

In 2014, the Clintons took in more than $28 million and claimed about $3 million in income as charitable tax deductions, according to tax returns released by Hillary's presidential campaign last Friday, as reported by Politico.

The campaign made sure to emphasize that Hillary's charitable givings "represented 10.8 percent" of her total income in 2014, however, more than half of that money - $1.8 million - was sent to the Clinton Foundation.

http://www.hngn.com/articles/116271/20150805/the-clintons-sent-half-of-their-charitable-donations-to-their-own-charity-in-2014.htm

Most of Clintons' Charitable Donations Went to Family Foundation


By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 6, 2008; Page A09

Bill Clinton's book "Giving" devotes a great deal of space to the charitable habits of the world's wealthiest inhabitants, and it details some of his own efforts on behalf of AIDS patients and victims of natural calamities.
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TAX WRITE-OFFS ON $109 MILLION: Most of Clintons' Charitable Donations Went to Family Foundation
What Would $109 Million Buy?

But it was only on Friday afternoon, when his wife's presidential campaign released family tax returns for the past eight years, that the world got a glimpse at how he and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) have managed the tough kitchen-table decisions about how to parcel out their own wealth -- including the $6.3 million Bill Clinton received as his "Giving" advance.

After earning more than $109 million over eight years, the Clintons took tax write-offs for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. In most of those years, that money was donated to the Clinton Family Foundation...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/05/ST2008040502593.html

[Joob]

1. Omg, tone it down. Quit bashing Hillary.

[MsFlorida]

2. Imagine that, Who would have figured....

N/t

[rhett o rick]

3. What a racket. Their "charity" donations go to their Retirement plan. nm

[BreakfastClub]

4. Good. They do a lot of great work all over the world. nt

[egalitegirl]

5. Clinton Foundation creates jobs through trickle down economics!

Really! That is on Clinton Foundation's website.

The the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund invested in luxury hotel businesses, it created indirect jobs. See, Trickle Down Theory works and so it should be considered a charity.

[randome]

6. So what? Do you know anything about what the Clinton Foundation does? Probably not.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says that “so little” of the charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation “actually go to charitable works” — a figure CARLY for America later put at about 6 percent of its annual revenues — but Fiorina is simply wrong.
Fiorina and others are referring only to the amount donated by the Clinton Foundation to outside charities, ignoring the fact that most of the Clinton Foundation’s charitable work is performed in-house. One independent philanthropy watchdog did an analysis of Clinton Foundation funding and concluded that about 89 percent of its funding went to charity.
Simply put, despite its name, the Clinton Foundation is not a private foundation — which typically acts as a pass-through for private donations to other charitable organizations. Rather, it is a public charity. It conducts most of its charitable activities directly.

Asked for some examples of the work it performs itself, the Clinton Foundation listed these:
Clinton Development Initiative staff in Africa train rural farmers and help them get access to seeds, equipment and markets for their crops.
Clinton Climate Initiative staff help governments in Africa and the Caribbean region with reforestation efforts, and in island nations to help develop renewable energy projects.
Staff at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, an independent, affiliated entity, work in dozens of nations to lower the cost of HIV/AIDS medicine, scale up pediatric AIDS treatment and promote treatment of diarrhea through life-saving Zinc/ORS treatment.
Clinton Health Matters staff work with local governments and businesses in the United States to develop wellness and physical activity plans.

It's not even a private organization! This is why Sanders supporters tend to not be taken seriously.
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[COLGATE4]

13. But...but...but... don't you understand? Clinton Foundation BAD!

FIRE BAD! Clintons BAD. Rinse and repeat - be very careful not to inject any facts in your diatribe.

[randome]

14. They see the word 'Clinton' attached to it and automatically assume without researching it.

By that logic, the Jimmy Carter Center needs to be shut down, pronto!
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[COLGATE4]

15. I have to wear a poncho while reading DU to avoid

the flying spittle in some posts.

[Doctor_J]

7. Sexist! Hater! Trump!

[bobbobbins01]

8. Can I do that?

Create a non-profit, then just pay into it and write it off on my taxes?

[randome]

9. It is a public organization, not a private one.

So yes, if you donate to a public organization, you can claim deductions.
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[amborin]

16. how come so much is spent on travel and salaries? and so little on actual charity?

[Skwmom]

10. From 2007 to 2014 almost ALL of the donations went to their foundation.

As for charitable donations, the Clintons gave just under $15 million over the eight-year period, which is 10.8 percent of their total income. The vast majority of that — about $14.8 million — went through the Clinton Family Foundation, the vehicle the Clintons frequently use to make personal donations, and another $57,000 went to the Clinton Global Initiative. The Clintons' other donations were to the Nelson Mandela Foundation ($60,000), Humana Challenge ($46,000), the First Methodist United Church ($20,000), Exploring the Arts ($4,100), St. Stephen's Armenian Apostolic Church ($2,500) and the Hot Springs Class of '64, Bill Clinton's high school graduating class in Arkansas ($200).

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/hillary-clinton-releases-her-tax-returns/457896/

[randome]

11. Despite the Clinton Foundation having their name, it is not a private organization.

So the claims that they are donating to themselves are ludicrous. The haters on this site never bother to research anything, they simply regurgitate the newest soundbite.
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[djean111]

12. Grifters. n/t