Fit2BTied wrote:
[And so he's a bad guy for taking the deduction?! The Bible tells us to "..Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's...", but it doesn't say be stupid about it!]
Thank you for the clarifications, Fit2BTied.
A review is in order;
"Mrs. Obama did not have a staff of 40.
[I agreed with you that the number was incorrect. It appears that most sources agree that during different times she had 20-25 or so staffers]
Melania does nothing, so she does not need staff.
[the unt***hiness of this, and implying that Mrs. Obama was doing so much more doesn't require a response]
The white house does not want too many staff watching them.
Many positions, no one wants to take, under trump.
[Again, an opinion - and as a hero of mine once said, "I fart in your general direction"]
They are not even trying to recruit for many jobs.
[Yep, because the President knows that WE DON'T NEED SO MANY PEOPLE ON THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL!]
$400.000 annual salary, paid quarterly, automatically a lie.
[Looks like that's a period, not a comma, so I guess you're right - $400 is not the annual salary]
In late May 2018, we received a batch of inquiries from readers asking for verification of the claim that United States President Donald Trump had donated his first-quarter 2018 salary to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
As a candidate, Trump famously promised to forgo his entire $400,000-per-year p**********l salary if elected, following in the footsteps of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover, both of whom were independently wealthy and donated the entirety of their salaries to charitable causes.
Thus far, Trump has made good on that vow, announcing quarterly donations during the first year of his presidency to four federal agencies: the National Park Service, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of T***sportation
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-donate-salary-va/This will be used as a tax write off, otherwise he would have refused to take a salary.[/quote]
[And so he's a bad guy for taking the deduction?! The Bible tells us to "..Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's...", but it doesn't say be stupid about it!]"