What is your HHI and how much do you donate?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. This thread is a real eye-opener.

So many people with so much money that are so unwilling to help others with charitable giving - and seem to be so resentful that anyone would even suggest that they could maybe give a little bit more.

I'm at $160K HHI, $3K donations - which I've often though was too low. But apparently I'm quite generous with my giving compared to many DCUMers. And yes, I have kids, and medical costs, and housing costs, and, like everyone else, need to save for retirement and college.

The people who quit giving because "Obummer"? Are you the same people who say we should cut government and let private charities fill the gap?

The more I think about it, the more sick reading this thread makes me feel. There's thousands of hungry children in the DC area. Would it kill any of you high-income earners to make a donation to your local food bank?

+2 million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I apologize for being clueless, but I thought members of a church had to tithe 10% of income? Or is it voluntary?

Ha! It's voluntary and most shirk their responsibility.

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Anonymous wrote:$200,000....about $125 to various organizations and clothing/furniture to Salvation Army. I'm in a helping profession so I do give back in other ways

And do you write off this generous effort? What a joke.

Actually I do write it off . I spend 40 hours a week in a helping profession in a marginally paid position for my level of education so while I'm not giving much financially, I am being charitable in other ways.

Love. More people should really actually "do" instead of "donate."

Because 200k is marginally paid? Please, education does not and should never equate to an expected salary. I hear this all the time with govy lawyers that make 6 figures.

I'm the pp who called the contribution a joke. I too work in the public sector making less than I could in the private, but I donate a ton more than you. You don't seem very charitable in your attitude.

Some people give of their time, some people give with their money and some do both. I choose to contribute with the work I do every day. I wouldn't begrudge the big law attorney who makes a killing and doesn't donate with their time but is charitable in their donations.

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People lie about their HHI.

They so do. . .

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http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2014/04/08/if-you-have-high-income-your-taxes-are-going-up/

We are at the pre Bush levels with more deduction limits and the new taxes for the affordable care act plus the .9% medicare tax.

Note for college tuition payers -American opportunity credit does not exist if your MAGI is $90,000 or more ($180,000 or married joint filers). The credit is 100% of the first 2000 and 25% of the next 2000. Now if you live in a higher cost of living area resulting in higher salaries ...

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$300k
No donations

I'd rather donate time than money.

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liberals give much less, hardly anything.

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Anonymous wrote:liberals give much less, hardly anything.

And republicans have small pricks.




See, I can make generalizations just like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:liberals give much less, hardly anything.

Like the "liberal" who is blaming Obama for his lack of charity? That just makes no kind of sense -- if you hate the guy so much, why choose to emulate him in your charitable giving?

People can make any reason or rationale they want for giving or not giving. I hardly make financial donations myself, and it's because I feel like I just don't have enough. (HHI $75K, single, with a hefty daycare bill). I donated much more when I didn't have a child. I'd like to get back to giving, because I believe there are many worthy causes.

But my decisions on charitable giving are mine alone, driven by my finances and my own thinking -- not on who the president is. That is just crazy talk.

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It is not an opinion. Conservatives give much much more to charity. Probably bc they go to church more.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not an opinion. Conservatives give much much more to charity. Probably bc they go to church more.

Link please.

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Anonymous wrote:$200,000....about $125 to various organizations and clothing/furniture to Salvation Army. I'm in a helping profession so I do give back in other ways

And do you write off this generous effort? What a joke.

Actually I do write it off . I spend 40 hours a week in a helping profession in a marginally paid position for my level of education so while I'm not giving much financially, I am being charitable in other ways.

$200k is NOT marginally paid in any way.

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Anonymous wrote:Obama put a stop to my donations.

Me too since he has been president. Given his history of lack of charitable donations before he ran for president, he is someone who thinks to take other people's money to help the poor but not his. He only started donating 15-20-ish percent since 2008. I find that hypocritical and disgusting which is why I can't stand to even look at the guy on t.v.

When then-presidential candidate Obama released his tax returns during the 2008 campaign, it was revealed that he began making significant gifts to charity after he started making serious money from his books — and after he decided to run for president.
Here’s what the numbers look like:
2005: $77,315 to charity out of income of $1.66 million (4.6 percent)
2004: $2,500 out of $207,647 (1.2 percent)
2003: $3,400 out of $238,327 (1.4 percent)
2002: $1,050 out of $259,394 (0.4 percent)

So, when he suddenly had an enormous amount of income - 5 times what he previously earned - he had more available to donate? What is your point here?

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HHI about $2 million. We donate approximately $60,000 in pre-budgeted charitable giving and then do more as issues arise (friends' have a parent die or a child sick and we donate to a related charity, our church or the school has a worthehile capital campaign, etc.). We also give more when called upon in the election cycle if we wish to support a particular candidate. We feel very lucky to be in a position to do this.

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Our HHI is about $90k. We typically give about $1500-2000 in cash donations and at least that much in clothes, toys and furniture donations. Last year it was probably more like $3k in furniture donations.