Depending on our income, we pay from 30% income tax and higher. From the left-over money we get after the government has taken their share, we also pay tax on each red cent we use to purchase something. Taxes upon taxes upon taxes upon ..... One of the mysteries of life: where do our taxes go? I saw something interesting today that might shed some light on that mystery.
According to a private audit, our senate members are shopaholics! With OUR money!! Each Senate member has 16 1st class airline return tickets to use in a year, a $5000 "miscellaneous" expense limit (I'm sure the term 'limit' is used loosely here) in which alcohol also counts as an expense, and those two are just tips of the ice berg! Apparently they also don't require receipt to submit their expenses, which means they can, and have been claiming all sorts of personal expenses as Senate expenses. I guess that does make sense; why track your expenses when you have a 81 MILLION DOLLAR operating budget!
Chair of senate committee David Tkachuk says "There has been no evidence of wrongdoing, it is mostly accidents".
They accidentally take a huge chunk of our hard earned income before we even get to see it? They accidentally can spend our money to take their family on vacation at least 16times a year? They accidentally have a 81 million dollar operating budget? Hey why not! They are after all hard working tax payers just like us! Their yearly income start from a measly $130,000.
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