{"id":28864,"date":"2012-04-16T00:50:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T04:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28864"},"modified":"2012-04-16T00:50:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T04:50:04","slug":"obamas-presidential-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/16\/obamas-presidential-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Presidential Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v41a202fe00f44b08cec1b531cef93b6c78d4ad7f&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v41a202fe00f44b08cec1b531cef93b6c78d4ad7f&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Obamas Paid 20.5 Percent Tax. That&#8217;s on the couple&#8217;s $789,674 in 2011Income. Obama, who earns a $400,000 annual salary as president,received most of the rest of his 2011 income from sales of his books.Because they earned less than $1 million in 2011, the Obamas wouldn&#8217;tbe subject to the Buffett rule, the proposed minimum tax for highearners the president has been pushing for in his re-electioncampaign.The Obamas&#8217; charitable donations were a significant percentage oftheir income for 2011, and it&#8217;s a big reason why their tax rate islower than many households with incomes in that range.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/16\/1_renq6ugg_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/16\/1_renq6ugg_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obamas Paid 20.5 Percent Tax. That&#8217;s on the couple&#8217;s $789,674 in 2011Income. Obama, who earns a $400,000 annual salary as president,received most of the rest of his 2011 income from sales of his books.Because they earned less than $1 million in 2011, the Obamas wouldn&#8217;tbe subject to the Buffett rule, the proposed minimum tax for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/16\/obamas-presidential-taxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Presidential Taxes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}