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Taxpayers Spent $1.4 Billion on Obama’s Family Last Year’s Perks
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SOT-Lou TTiV OG
Posts : 256 Join date : 2012-09-12 Location : Tennessee
Subject: Taxpayers Spent $1.4 Billion on Obama’s Family Last Year’s Perks Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:48 am
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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.
In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.
Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn't the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in....