Sarah Palin Just Like Us - Uses H&R Block, Made $294,000

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  Posted by Isis Sun Oct 5, 2008 1:15pm PDT

  Don't know where you got your info, mine is from cnn,msnbc,and fox news the McCain campaign released this;

  WASHINGTON -- John McCain's campaign says Sarah and Todd Palin had a gross income of nearly $170,000 last year and paid nearly $25,000 in taxes. The campaign also says the couple made nearly $130,000 and paid about $12,000 in taxes in 2006. McCain's campaign released the joint income tax return Friday for his vice presidential nominee and her husband.

  The couple donated more than $8,000 to charity over two years.

  Their income jump from 2006 to 2007 resulted from the salary increase when Sarah Palin became Alaska's governor. Sarah only makes $125,000 per year as governor!

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  Posted by springtime Sun Oct 5, 2008 1:47pm PDT

  Sarah gets paid quite well for being Alaska's governor,considering how often she was actually on the job during her 19 months in office.

  Nineteen months totals 578 days, but after subtracting weekends and holidays, it is only about 397 workdays. Assuming Palin did not routinely bill the state for staying in her own home on weekends and holidays, she would have spent no more than 85 workdays in the state capital over the course of her 19 months in office, even if she traveled nowhere else in Alaska or outside of the state. That compares with 168 days that the Alaska Legislature was in session during the same period.

  One of the state’s leading papers, the Juneau Empire, described her attendance like this:

  “Palin has spent little time in Juneau, rarely coming to the state capital except when the Legislature was in session, and sometimes not even then. During a recent special session called by Palin herself, she faced criticism from several legislators for not showing up personally to push for her agenda. Someone at the Capitol even printed up buttons the lesislators wore asking, ‘Where’s Sarah?’”

  It appears that in the upside-down situation that has occurred in Juneau over the past year and a half, almost all of the members of the Alaska Legislature were in the state capital far more often than the governor.

  One member told the Juneau Empire, “At a time when [Palin’s] leadership was truly needed, we didn’t know where she was.”

  ( Center for American Progress Action Fund )

  And by the way... oh, NO, I most definitely am not at all like Sarah Palin...absolutely not!

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