American President Barack Obama And First Lady Pays $98,169 in total tax The President and First Lady also released their Illinois income tax return and reported paying $23,328 in state income tax.
Barack Obama & First Lady released their 2013 federal income tax returns. Obama and the First Lady filed their income tax returns jointly and reported adjusted gross income of $481,098. The Obamas paid $98,169 in total tax.
The President and First Lady also reported donating $59,251 – or about 12.3 percent of their adjusted gross income – to 32 different charities. The largest reported gift to charity was $8,751 to the Fisher House Foundation.
The President’s effective federal income tax rate is 20.4 percent. The President pushed for and signed into law legislation that makes the system more fair and helps the middle class by extending tax cuts to middle class and working families and asks the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. In 2013, as a result of his policies, the President was subject to limitations in tax preferences, as well as additional Medicare and investment income taxes, for high income earners.
The President and First Lady also released their Illinois income tax return and reported paying $23,328 in state income tax.
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Michelle Obama Remembers Great Wall Of China as “great marvels of human history”
First Lady Of U S A Michelle Obama, Visited the Great Wall of China with her Daughters And Remembers Great Wall “great marvels of human history”
Yesterday, Michelle Obama visited the Great Wall of China with her daughters. As she wrote in her Travel Journal
“We drove about an hour north of Beijing to a village called Mutianyu to visit a section of the Great Wall of China, which was simply breathtaking. The scenery on the way there was beautiful — a wide vista of mountains and trees — so the car ride alone was a treat. But then, running along the highest ridges of the mountains, The Great Wall — one of the great marvels of human history.Today we drove about an hour north of Beijing to a village called Mutianyu to visit a section of the Great Wall of China, which was simply breathtaking.
The scenery on the way there was beautiful – a wide vista of mountains and trees – so the car ride alone was a treat. But then, running along the highest ridges of the mountains, you see it: The Great Wall – one of the great marvels of human history.
It is not a single, uninterrupted wall, but rather a series of smaller walls which sometimes overlap and run parallel to each other.
Certain sections of the Wall date back as far as the seventh century B.C., but the majority of the Great Wall we know today – including the section at Mutianyu – was built between the 1300s and the 1600s.”
Michelle Said “To get to the Wall, we rode a cable car up a mountain (and we later rode back down on a long slide!). The section we visited is one of the more popular parts of the Wall for tourists, and it’s easy to see why. At Mutianyu, the Wall is roughly 20 to 25 feet tall and full of stairs, and there’s a watchtower every 100 yards or so. Those watchtowers serve as a reminder of why the Wall was built in the first place – to defend against attacks from armies descending from the north. Throughout its history, the Great Wall has gone through decades, even centuries, of ruin and disrepair. But it has always served as not only a physical barrier, but a psychological one to intimidate potential invaders.During our visit to the Wall, I couldn’t stop thinking about what a massive undertaking it must have been to build it. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and peasants were given the dangerous, painstaking – and often fatal – task of carrying ton after ton of granite, brick, dirt, and wood through the forests, up over the hills, and down through the valleys to create this incredible structure. They did this year after year, decade after decade – and it’s because of their hard work and sacrifice that the Great Wall remains standing today.”
Michelle Obama Celebrated world’s oldest Festival Diwali
First Lady Michelle Obama, Like Every Year ,Celebrated Diwali In The White House
Michelle Obama welcomed guests to the White House for a Diwali celebration.
The celebration started with the First Lady suprising local students at a Bollywood dance clinic and trying out some moves herself.
First Lady spoke in the East Room:“We’ve celebrated this holiday here at the White House every year since Barack took office. And there’s a reason why we’ve done that,”
When we say that we want to make the White House the “people’s house,” we mean all people. We mean that we want to honor and embrace all of the many cultures and faith traditions that make us who we are as Americans. And Diwali is very much one of those traditions.
the First Lady said”Diwali is celebrated by members of some of the world’s oldest religions not just here in America but across the globe” “ It’s a time to come together with friends and family, often with dancing and good food,”
But Diwali is also a time for contemplation and reflection. It’s a time for us to think about our obligations to our fellow human beings, particularly those who are less fortunate than we are. And as we light the diya — the lamp — we recommit ourselves to the triumph of light over darkness, of good over evil.
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