03 Aug 2015

Clintons “Earned” $141 Million Since 2007

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Tigerhawk has a few choice words about the leading (Rand villain) couple of America’s “aristocracy of pull.”

The news today had its uplifting moments. Vox choked out a spectacular story about the arresting wealth gathered in by Bill and Hillary Clinton since 2007, and graced it with a headline so snarky that Donald Trump might have written it: “Hillary Clinton has paid more in taxes than Jeb Bush has ever earned.” The short version is that the Clintons have “earned” — more about the use of that word in a moment — $141 million since 2007. I don’t care who you are, that’s some decent coin.

The second best part about the Vox story is the searchable list of all the organizations, mostly large business corporations, that have paid the Clintons enormous sums to hear their talking points in person. Scroll down and make your list of boycott targets (I was sad to see my old law firm Latham & Watkins in that corrupt crowd, by the way). …

Is there a single person alive who believes that corporations, trade associations, NGOs, unions, and the like pay the Clintons enormous sums for speeches because they believe their members actually want to hear the Clintons say the same tedious talking points they have been spewing for years? If that were the only value received no profit-minded enterprise would pay the Clintons these vast fees because they would earn, well, a shitty rate of return.

No, the Clintons are not paid to speak. Businesses and other interest groups pay them for the favor of access at a crucial moment or a thumb on the scale in the future, perhaps when it is time to renew the Ex-Im Bank or at a thousand other occasions when a nod might divert millions of dollars from average people in to the pockets of the crony capitalists. The speaking is just a ragged fig leaf, mostly to allow their allies in the media to say they “earned” the money for “speaking,” which is, after all, hard work.

We have such people as the Clintons (and the tens of thousands of smaller bore looters who have turned the counties around Washington, D.C. in to the richest in the country) because they and their ilk in both parties have transformed the federal government of the United States in to a vast favors factory, an invidious place that not only picks winners and losers and decides the economic fates of millions of people, but which has persuaded itself that this is all quite noble. Instead, the opposite is true: This entire class of people, of which the Clintons are a most ugly apotheosis, are destroying the country while claiming it is all in the “public service.” It is disgusting. We need to say that, at least, out loud.

Of course, all of this was prefigured years ago in a novel some of you will know.

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GoneWithTheWind

No one ever paid Bill or Hillary because of their wisdom on inciteful presentation. 100% of these speaking engagements have been payola, graft, buying political power, etc. At least in the 3rd world they do it more openly and honestly and simply ask for money if you want something. Here we make believe that their half our speech is worth $300K.



Dave J

Channel surfing on the radio this weekend I heard a reporter on a NPR station gleefully reporting that these records indicate that the Clintons donated slightly over 10% of their income.
Then later in the weekend I read that approx 99% of their donations went to their own foundation….Can one actually write off what one donates to oneself?



GoneWithTheWind

Al Gore donates tohis “charitable” foundation and then uses the money to travel and for expenses. It is crazy to allow tax exemption… period. Every tax exempt option should be ended. It is abused and misused. For those groups actually doing charitable work it would make little difference. End them all and make everyone equal under the law.



Phil

Great content this week JD



SDD

Tax deductions of all kinds are simply disguised ways for those in government to exercise control over how you use your property. In their ideal world, all property belongs to them. They then allow you to use certain portions of your property for purposes of which they approve. Or, even better, purposes for which you pay them for the right to do so.



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