BREAKING NEWS: Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton took in $109 million since 2000

It pays to be an ex-president. The Clintons -- Bill and Hillary -- reported $109 million in income from 2000, his last year in office, through estimates for 2007, the campaign said this afternoon. The couple paid more than $33 million in federal taxes and donated more than $10 million to charities.

That left post-tax earnings of a little over $57 million -- a pretty good Lotto jackpot. Specific income included just over $1 million from Hillary Clinton's Senate salary, and $1.2 million from a  presidential pension. An additional $10.4 million came from  Hillary Clinton's book income, a third of what her husband took in -- $29.6 million. The big cash cow: President Clinton's speech revenue: nearly $52 million.

All the details are available here. The campaign release is after the jump* ....

-- Scott Martelle

*item has been edited

Today Senator Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton are releasing their tax returns for the years 2000 through 2006, and are providing information regarding their 2007 taxes as well.

The Clintons have now made public thirty years of tax returns, a record matched by few people in public service.  None of Hillary Clinton's presidential opponents have revealed anything close to this amount of personal financial information.

What the Clintons' tax returns show is that they paid more than $33,000,000 in federal taxes and donated more than $10,000,000 to charities over the past eight years.  They paid taxes and made charitable contributions at a higher rate than taxpayers at their income level.

2000 - 2007 TAX RETURN SUMMARY

HILLARY & BILL CLINTON

TAXES PAID:  $33,783,507
The Clintons paid $33,783,507 in federal taxes -– 31% of their adjusted gross income.  According to the most recent data available from the IRS, in 2005 taxpayers earning $10,000,000 or more paid on average 20.8% of their adjusted gross income in taxes.

CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS:  $10,256,741
The Clintons donated $10,256,741 to charity –- 9.5% of their adjusted gross income.  According to the most recent data available from the IRS, in 2005 taxpayers earning $10,000,000 or more contributed 3.1% of their adjusted gross income in cash contributions to charity.  Information about the Clinton Family Foundation, including a list of charities to which the Clintons contributed through the Foundation, is available online in the Foundation's publicly available tax returns (www.foundationcenter.org). 

AFTER TAX EARNINGS:  $57,157,297

CUMULATIVE TOTAL(GROSS) INCOME:  $109,175,175
Including, among other items:   
            Senator Clinton’s Senate Salary:                                               $1,051,606
            President Clinton’s Presidential Pension:                                    $1,217,250
            Senator Clinton’s Book Income:                                               $10,457,083
            President Clinton’s Book Income:                                            $29,580,525
            President Clinton’s Speech Income:                                          $51,855,599

SENATOR CLINTON’S BOOK INCOME:  $10,457,083
Senator Clinton’s book income is comprised of earnings for Living History ($10,267,895), including an $8,000,000 advance, and It Takes a Village ($189,188).  The earnings for It Takes a Village were donated to charity.  Since the release of It Takes a Village in 1996, Senator Clinton has donated over $1,100,000 to charity.

PRESIDENT CLINTON’S BOOK INCOME:  $29,580,525
President Clinton’s book income is comprised of earnings for My Life ($23,280,525), including a $15,000,000 advance, and Giving ($6,300,000).  The President donated $1,000,000 of his income from Giving in 2007 to charity.

PRESIDENT CLINTON’S SPEECH INCOME:  $51,855,599

NOTE:  The figures in this summary include 2007 estimates.

Annual tax information is available for download here:
www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/returns

Comments

[Mike B.]

News flash. George Bush was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2001. Sooo Bill Clinton left office in 2001.

(Nice catch -- the perils of breaking news. We fixed when we went through and added some stuff, and edited some others).

[hector j vega]

Their tax returns illustrate a few things about the Clintons. They are honest, they are hard working, they care about humanity and that they are generous, always giving substantial amounts of their time And money to charitable causes. These are inate qualities, despite sulfuric republicans, that have been self evident for years.

[dave]

go figure. big figures. but does it matter?
the clintons can be expected to give of what they take what they think it takes to take even more.
not a secret. hardly news.

[Arman]

Wow, they made $50M+ from 'just words'.

[kg]

Now I know why everyone is writing a BOOK these days.

It does not sell. Bribing will be done like OK i am buying 100,000 copies of your Book and no hard copies please and PLEASE DO NOT EVEN THINK OF ASKING ME TO READ IT.

Another way to taking a bribe, Give me an hour and a Room and this time instead of Monica, give me a Mic. When I am done, I get a MILLION. YOU DON"t EVEN NEED TO KNOW WHAT I SPEACHED OR DID INSIDE.

[nj]

The Clintons are spokespeople for the poor? Hardly.

[kg]

FORECAST:

2009: Bush makes $100 Million and Dick makes $500 Million for 2009 for their SPEACHES in Dessert to a couple in SOUDI.

[Matt]

Working class heroes? Not.

[Nova yos Galan]

What's so startling about that? Divide $109 million by 8 years and you get $13,625,000 on average per year. Divide that by 2 and you get an annual income for each of $6,812,500 on average. Are critics saying that former presidents don't rake in the $$ from public speaking? Or that an author should not be paid for publishing books?

[Sidmore]

WOW, CLINTON IS A BLUE COLLAR MAMA!!!! LOL!

What a bunch of idiots supporting her- don't you feel duped. She is STRAIGHT CORPORATE. Send her to the White House she'll work to help the poor (ever heard of the fox watching the hen house ). Get ready to get eaten alive.

[Marks]

It's the recent years, since Hillary became a Senator and now running for President, Bill's speaking fee prices have sky rocketed and more of them! When they started earning more than $10 Million a year.

Groups are looking for access by funneling money to Bill in a speech or donations to the Clinton Library.

Hillary said, words are cheap, except when they make Millions for them. Deeds aren't cheap, because with that kind of money transferred, corporate expectations are created.

Bush set the model how to corporate sell out the White House. Clinton's have every knowledge how to do it better and for more personal profits. This next time, they don't want to be defending themselves from a special prosecutor.

Hillary loaned her campaign $5 Million and it gains interest longer she stays in the race.

Ultra Millionaires don't identify with blue collar and poor!

Beating them, those making $109 Million in 7 years, is sweet!

Go Obama!

[Liz in NYC]

Why are people griping? Yes, you can have money and care about the poor and injustice. Edwards who has more money than the Clintons was campaigning against poverty. The Clintons have given and incredible percentage of their income to charity.
There are very few public figures who can match their generous charity numbers.

[alice newton]

Thank you God for being good to the Clintons they were good people to us when Mr. Clinton was a President, now is time for Mrs. Clinton to win and give us peace of mind by solving our economic problems. We don't want to lose our jobs, our businesses, our retirement, our investment, our homes. Please God help Mrs. Clinton to get to the white house and spare the people of the USA of four years of horrible hardships.

[CP Cook]

The disclosure provided by the Clintons proved 2 things, that the Clintons are very successful and generous. Furthermore, the advocacy by the Clintons, both Hillary and Bill, are geared toward the underprivileged. I wonder with all the crap the Obama campaign has given the Clinton campaign about the tax returns whether Obama has even been close to either the success or generosity by the Clintons. BTW, the records are not for 2007 alone. They are for 2000 - 2007, so there is consistency here.

I heard from another news source that Obama gave a measly 1% to charity. Wow... it seems that he is only fond of receiving, not giving. What a hypocrite.

[KYJurisDoctor]

Let me get this straight: the Democrats are for the little guy ... and so are the Clintons.

Right!

(Wink) (Wink)

http://OsiSpeaks.com

[Amy68]

Hillary is most famous women in the world now we also know she has money

there is no reason for her to running for public office., unless she really cared about helping poor people get healthcare, better jobs, education and so on…………

If I were her I would be on a permanent vacation
that's why I believe Hillary will be best Presiden America never has

[Alan]

I voted for Obama in the Texas primary and I will vote for him in the General Election. I really dislike Hillary and want her to lose; the sooner, the better.

Having said that, I have no problem with Bill & Hill making good money off of their speeches or books. If a book sells a lot of copies, the author *should* make money off it's sales, my personal dislike of the author notwithstanding.

They will not be getting my money, I have yet to read "It Takes a Ghostwriter", oops, I mean "It Takes a Village", nor will that situation change. But if her fans buy her books, she should be rewarded.

[Ron]

Not bad for someone to make 50 million dollars making speeches and then turns around and criticizes Obama for giving good speeches. Do you think that it was coincidence that the returns were release today. Friday..... Martin Luther King Holiday. Maybe the Clintons thought no one would notice. It will be interesting to see what happens when Hillary has to talk to those poor suckers who are making 30 thousand a year.

[Muniz4Hillary]

Read myspace blog to see what a real SCUMBAG obama is.... he has been given a FREE ride in the state senate by EMIL JONES just as he is getting a FREE ride NOW! obama took credit for the hard work others did in the state senate and has tried to take credit for work others have done....just read my blog for the REAL TRUTH about this scum!

http://www.myspace.com/muniz4hillary

[Sonia Kermaz]

I feel their pain!

[jim]

Every penny of Clinton's "generous" donations in 2006 went to the Clinton Foundation. Under tax law, only 5 cents on the dollar must actually be distributed from the foundation and the Clintons maintain control of all the money. Wise up folks. Nothing is ever as it seems with the Clintons

[Eagle in NYC]

According to this article, Bill Clinton earned $23,280,525 for his book, “My Life.” According to his page on Wikipedia, that book sold 400,000 copies. Therefore, he earned $58.20 per book.

[Tonya]

Cheney, Obama, McCain, they have big EXPENSIVE PLANS for all of us.
The costs, we'll pay for them, and uh, oh yea, we will scream about the Recession the whole time we do it.

Let's educate ourselves about the Nuclear Power Plants already in the works by Obama, McCain, and their good buddy Dick Cheney.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3258

Does President Jimmy Carter and Al Gore want to go back in time to Nuclear Waste, to Cancer in children who live near these power plants? Go back in time to handicapped children being born near these Nuclear Power Plants?

I know one thing for sure, the BIG MEDIA on our televisions do want this, because of WHO PAYS THEIR BIG SALARIES!

No wonder the star of "Silkwood", Cher supports Senator Clinton.

What happen to windmills? Wind is too cheap to use for Cheney, Obama, and McCain I suppose they need a great money making scheme, even during a Recession.

How many of the 29 will be built in Texas, since Cheney is behind it all?

http://obamawho.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/obama-nafta-canada-cartoon/

How dirty are some of these big energy companies, too bad Karen Silkwood isn't around today, and she could tell us all, but oh yea, she was killed mysteriously while working for Ker-Mcgee at a plutonium plant. How dirty is G. E.? Pretty dirty if they think they can treat Americans like we live in a Communist Country! They have monopolized the media and are attacking the Clinton's all day every day, and we all know why, so they can get one of the two candidates they have bought and paid for elected, Obama or McCain.
We should be told the truth and then make our decisions based on truth, not the biased informations we are being told by the communtist run media.