Bernie made less in 2014 than Hillary did from a single speech: Multi-million dollar income disparity between Democratic candidates revealed after Sanders finally releases tax return
- Bernie Sanders and wife Jane reported an income of $205,000 last year
- The same year, Hillary Clinton made an average of $233,600 per speech
- Clinton gave 45 speeches in 2014 for a total sum of $10.5 million
- Hillary and Bill Clinton's total income in 2014 was reported as $27.9 million
- The Clintons donated 11% of income to charity, compared to Sanders's 4%
- Sanders released his 2014 tax return on Friday after months of stalling
- The only candidate left in the race who hasn't released tax docs is Trump
Bernie Sanders finally released his latest tax return on Friday - and the documents reveal he made less in a year than Hillary Clinton did from a single speech.
Sanders's 2014 tax documents show he and his wife Jane reported an adjusted gross income of about $205,000 that year.
That same year, Clinton made an average of $233,600 per speech. She gave 45 speeches in 2014 raking in a total of about $10.5 million, according to a Politico report.
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Bernie Sanders's 2014 tax return shows he reported an adjusted gross income of $205.271
For each of these speeches made by Hillary Clinton in January and February 2014, she made more than Sanders makes in a whole year
Sanders released his tax return after months of stalling - apart from Republican candidate Donald Trump, Sanders was the only candidate still in the race who hadn't released his tax documents (Trump has used a variety of excuses not to release his tax papers).
Since the 1970s, it has been standard practice for presidential candidates to release their tax returns for public scrutiny.
It took a challenge from Clinton during Thursday's debate in Sanders's hometown of Brooklyn for the Vermont senator to publish his 2014 return.
During the debate, Sanders blasted Clinton for her hefty speaking fees, and called for the former Secretary of State to release transcripts of paid speeches she gave to Wall Street banks - echoing a demand from the New York Times editorial board for Clinton to 'show voters those transcripts.'
Clinton deflected Sanders's request, and countered by questioning why he hadn't yet released his tax returns.
Hillary Clinton's documents show she reported an adjusted gross income of $27,946,490 in 2014
Sanders promised he would - along with his non-existent Wall Street speech transcripts:
'I am going to release all of the transcripts of the speeches that I gave on Wall Street behind closed doors - not for $225,000, not for $2,000, not for two cents. There were no speeches,' he said.
Together, Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill made over $25 million from giving speeches between January, 2014 and May, 2015, Politico reported.
In justifying the large paychecks she received for speaking, Hillary made a famously tactless comment: 'That's what they offered.'
Clinton's 2014 tax return, which she released last summer along with returns from several other years, shows she reported her household's adjusted gross income as about $27,946,000 - more than 136 times higher than Sanders's reported income.
Most of the Sanders household income came from Bernie's six-figure government salary. The couple also received over $46,000 in Social Security benefits.
The documents also show Bernie and Jane Sanders donated $8,350 to charity, which amounted to around 4 percent of the couple's total income.
By comparison, Hillary and Bill Clinton donated $3 million, nearly 11 percent of their income, in 2014.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders pictured at Thursday's Democratic presidential primary debate in Brooklyn
Bernie Sanders gave $8,350, or 4 percent of his household income, to charity in 2014
By comparison, Hillary Clinton gave $3,022,700, or 11 percent of her household income, to charity in the same year
Earlier this month, Sanders took heat from CNN's Jake Tapper for not releasing his tax return sooner.
During their April 3 interview, Sanders said his wife is the one that does the family's taxes, and that she'd been too busy on the campaign trail to get the papers in order for publication.
He also claimed he'd already revealed some tax documents, saying 'Of course, we have released them in the past.'
Politifact deemed that statement 'False.'
The average American household reported an income of $53,657 in 2014, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
A list of Hillary Clinton's speeches from April, 2013 to March, 2014. She received a total of $21,667,000
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