
“Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year. 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.”
Related posts:
Kim Jong-un's ex-lover 'executed by firing squad'
State Department slams Pakistani minister’s $100,000 filmmaker bounty
Standard Chartered fined $340 million over Iran deals
Rwandan woman stripped of U.S. citizenship after lying about role in genocide
Police summoned, multiple schools locked down after man spotted carrying umbrella
Rules Aimed at Tax Evasion Abroad Trip Up Average Americans
UBS to repay Swiss government bailout loan
Homeland Security seizes pilot's helicopter for flying on revoked license
Peugeot targets Iran to tap post-sanctions industrial recovery
Malta to ID buyers of its citizenship after outcry
US threatens Europe with sanctions for doing business with Iran
Egyptian farmer arrested for naming donkey after top general
Michaels retailer probing possible customer data breach
Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN
Are telegrams dead?