Ask Chelsea this question
Published by StB on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM.
Forget the questions about Monica Lewinsky. I want university students to ask Chelsea Clinton this simple question: Will your father reimburse the American taxpayer the $8 million in benefits that he has received and parlayed into $110 million in personal income, or at the very least, begin to waive these perks in the future?
Politico>Taxpyaer fund Bill Clinton spending:
Granted he is entitled to these benefits by law but let's get real here. He has used his presidency to his advantage to boost his net worth and can easily get by without raping taxpayers for more money. This is simple greed and any decent man would at the very least waive some of these perks for the benefit of the taxpayer.
Politico>Taxpyaer fund Bill Clinton spending:
The price tag for Clinton’s federal retirement allowance from 2001 through
the end of this year will run $8 million, compared to $5.5 million for George H.
W. Bush’s and $4 million for Jimmy Carter’s during the same period.Since 2001,
Clinton has received more of almost every benefit available to former presidents
— from his pension to his staff’s salaries and benefits to supplies. His
$420,000 phone bill and $3.2 million office rent tab both nearly surpassed the
totals rung up for those purposes by Bush, Carter and the late former presidents
Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan combined. As a group, they spent $484,000 on
telephone service and $3.8 million on rent in the same span.
Granted he is entitled to these benefits by law but let's get real here. He has used his presidency to his advantage to boost his net worth and can easily get by without raping taxpayers for more money. This is simple greed and any decent man would at the very least waive some of these perks for the benefit of the taxpayer.
