What is the Truth?

Lately we've been hearing a lot about the amount of taxes our presidential candidates are paying.  You hear the President Obama earned $800,000 in 2011 & donated $200,000 of it to charities & paid 20% in taxes.  Meanwhile Mit Rowney made $21 Million in 2011 & is paying only 14% in taxes.  Of course the way our tax laws are written much of what Mr Rowney earned was in capital gains which I guess can't be taxed any higher then 15%.  Add to that the amount he may donate & who knows what the truth is.  Election years bring out so many half truths & out right lies.  Then you have our illustrious governor who is running New York the way Boss Tweed ran NYC.  Talk about a Bully.  Oh yes, he is keeping his promises by arm twisting & screwing our kids.  At the top of his attack list are our schools & teachers.  His tax cap sounded oh so nice but when you don't provide enough state aid to support the programs you mandate and then don't allow the schools to raise enough in taxes to keep programs & staff, who suffers....Our Future.....The Kids.   He is touting his bi-partisinship when instead he has forced their hands at the cost of hurting the poor, the sick, the old, & the young.  wow...So What is the truth.  The truth is that as long as political gain is more important then to do what is right for the common Good, lieing & half-truths will continue to fill our papers & drive the car called our Country and that gap between the haves & have nots will continue to grow eliminating the real drive in this country, The Middle Class.