Lawmakers under fire for $174,000 TAX FREE gift to widow of millionaire senator
dailymail ^ | Oct 16, 2013 |
Lautenberg's net worth was estimated at $57 million in 2011
Thanks, Jet Jaguar. Wonder if she would refuse th....
Nevermind.
Posted on 10/16/2013 8:06:19 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Lautenberg's net worth was estimated at $57 million in 2011
Lawmakers are under fire for awarding a $174,000 tax-free gift to the widow of late Senator Frank Lautenberg when the cash-strapped government can't even pay its own bills.
The tax-free payment for the surviving relatives of members of Congress is a time-honored perk of public service in Washington. The gift is equal to the member's annual salary at their time of death, which in the New Jersey Democrat's case, was $174,000. The payment is written into the appropriations bill that has been approved by the House of Representatives.
If the payment is approved by the Senate, as is expected, it would bring the total amount that Congress has given the families of deceased lawmakers to $2.6 million over the past decade, Fox News reports.
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corruption
That’s what happens when it’s other people’s money.
Where is the speech from davy crockett regarding such :
Daily Mail UK——Brits reporting the news the lamestreams refuse.
Daily Mail UK——Brits reporting the news the lamestreams refuse.
YEP...
and 87 Republicans voted for it.
Hey, she was married to a big time demokkkrat so there’s nothing strange here. Dems just doing what they do best. And screw the peons. Not even any cake.
Too bad this wasn’t headlining over the weekend.
Lawmakers under fire for $174,000 TAX FREE gift to widow of millionaire senator
dailymail ^ | Oct 16, 2013 |
Lautenberg's net worth was estimated at $57 million in 2011
Thanks, Jet Jaguar. Wonder if she would refuse th....
Nevermind.
yea!they can dish out 175000.00 to a millionaire senators widow but they will screw our veterans,widows and orphans out of their death benefits and healcare expenses.
But thats something the U.S.Congress has done for years.Stealing benefits away from veterans while continueing to increase their own.
What a bunch of worthless S.O.B.’s.
Not Yours to Give
http://www.fee.org/library/detail/not-your-to-give-2#axzz2hwziRMTO
Liberal 1%ers don’t count.
Pray America is Waking Up
A death perk?
It's literally voting money for their own posterity. Their families will get the same take out of the public treasury.
Think of them as glorified welfare voters, voting money for themselves at the expense of the public.
Congressmen are very generous with each other...on our dime. It’s disgusting.
You got that right.
Pols freely stealing from veterans while increasing their own wealth.....is nauseating
The death benefit is the tip of the iceberg. The greedy pols got zillions of ways to siphon off tax dollars for themselves. It's known that once they get into office---they do not spend a single solitary cent of their own money---they force struggling taxpayers to foot all their bills.
The area around the capital----where they all live---has been designated the wealthiest in the nation.
Its about time we ask how these creeps can afford these sprawling mansions, built on prime real estate, on a "govt salary."
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