Democrats demand we give while they keep

In a not surprising revelation the Democrat presidential candidates who are constantly condemning the "rich" are themselves very rich.

Beto O'Rourke and his wife made a cool $370k in 2017.  Bernie Sanders and his wife made $566k in 2017.  Kamala Harris and her husband made around $2M in 2018. While Elizabeth Warren and her husband made just short of $1M in 2018.

All of these "champions of the people" are constantly attacking the "rich" for not paying their fair share.  But they count on the #FakeNews media to hide from we the people the fact that they are the very people they supposedly condemn.

Not only that but with all the money those supposedly caring and charitable Democrats make they give very little to charity.

O'Rourke:    $1,166  0.3%
Harris:       $27,000  1.4%
Warren:     $55,000  5.5%
Sanders:   $16,980   3.0%

Yet they say that we must raise taxes on everyone else in order to help the poor.  Of course when we use tax dollars to pay the poor the rich Washington bureaucracy skims a lot off of the top.  If we look at the total we spend on helping the poor and divide it by the number of poor families each family of 4 should get around $66k a year. Clearly that's not happening and it's not happening because the government employee's who run those programs make about twice as much as workers in the private sector.

But most charitable organizations run much leaner and direct around 90% of the money collected to the people who are actually in need.

Yet the Democrats won't give their own money but they will demand that you give your money to them so that they can spend it as they want to; the reality is all they care about is buying votes.

O'Rourke's defense is that his going around campaigning so that he can become even richer and more powerful is his "charitable" contribution.  It's like a salesman saying that the hours he spends away from home selling things so he can make more commissions are charitable contributions.

That's right Beto says he blesses us with his presence so that's his bit of charity.

If these Democrats actually cared about the poor they'd be giving far more of their own money to private charities than they do.

You can be sure, and Bernie has admitted, that none of these Democrats pay a cent more in taxes than they need to and that they use expensive lawyers/tax accountants to make sure that they get every tax break possible.

Yet they demand that Americans, who give billions of their own money to charities every year, give more of their hard earned money to the government so these already very rich people can spend it.  You may not be able to send your kid to college because of the crushing tax burdens that Democrats impose but they will be able to ensure that someone who could work but doesn't want to will have a comfortable life and, more importantly, vote Democrat.

Remember the best way to define a leftists is "A Leftists is someone who wants to be philanthropic with other people's money".