Obama’s Tax Returns show the hypocrisy
Mar 25 at 8:08pm by Macranger
Byron York notes that specifically Michelle Obama has been around the country telling people how much of a “stuggle” it is to get by. Yet their tax returns look like anything but a struggle:
“And now we have the tax returns from some of those struggling years. We all know that the Obamas did well in 2005 and 2006, when Barack Obama’s books were selling and the University of Chicago gave Michelle Obama an unusually large raise, from $121,910 in 2004 to 316,962 in 2005. In those years, according to the tax returns, the Obamas’ adjusted gross income was $983,826 in 2006 and $1,655,106 in 2005.
But now we see that the Obamas managed to scrape by in the years before that, as well. The returns show them with an adjusted gross income of $207,647 in 2004, the year Barack Obama spent running for the Senate. Their adjusted gross income was $238,327 in 2003. It was $259,394 in 2002; $272,759 in 2001; and $240,505 in 2000.”
Now as a good conservative capitalist I’m all for making all the money you can and God bless them for making theirs. But while the MSM is hamming Hillary on a bad memory you would think they would find this just a bit hypocritical of the messiah. I mean telling people who barely make the middle “we feel your pain” is a little lame and not even half believable. I mean how many times can blacks in Pittsburgh say they’ve been to the Virgin Islands?
2 Responses for "Obama’s Tax Returns show the hypocrisy"
The Volokh Conspiracy
March 25th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
1Did Barack Obama Violate the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act?–…
Paul Caron has Barack and Michelle Obama’s tax returns on his website (tip to Instapundit…
Neo
March 25th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
2You can also see that in the Obama household, charity begins at home and stays there.
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