Anonymous wrote:Update: Price has flown on private planes more than 24 times since May to the tune of $300,000.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/21/tom-price-private-charter-plane-flights-242989
Anonymous wrote:There is literally no coverage of this on Fox News
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tom Price voted in the house to allow hospitals to turn away Medicare and Medicaid patients if they couldn't afford the copays. But he thinks it's fine for taxpayers to pay 25k so he can go from dc to philly. If karma exists, I hope it works on tom price.
I hope it works on the Trumpgrifters, Inc.
Anonymous wrote:Tom Price voted in the house to allow hospitals to turn away Medicare and Medicaid patients if they couldn't afford the copays. But he thinks it's fine for taxpayers to pay 25k so he can go from dc to philly. If karma exists, I hope it works on tom price.
Anonymous wrote:http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/21/betsy-devos-pays-for-her-own-travel-242977?lo=ap_a1
"The secretary neither seeks, nor accepts, any reimbursement for her flights, nor for any additional official travel-related expenses, such as lodging and per diem, even though she is entitled to such reimbursement under government travel regulations," Hill said.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:For 25k, I would carry him on my back to Philly.
Seriously.
Based on sample flight rates, the cost for Price to fly commercial would have been somewhere between $400 and $725—as opposed to $25,000 to charter a jet for a short trip from Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia and back.
Not to mention the train station is a hell of a lot closer to HHS than the airport.
What happens if he is found to have misused government funds to pay for this jet? Does he have to pay it back? Or is it a criminal charge because he misused a high $ amount of government funds?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tom Price's behavior was disgusting long before he ascended to Trump's cabinet courtesy of the GOP. They voted him in knowing how sleazy and underhanded he is, how he profited from insider trading, how corrupt he is. They should not be surprised that he's a grifter. He has not changed.
The GOP voted him in because he was not HRC. Also, many independents and Democrats who voted for Obama voted him in as well.
Anonymous wrote:What I want to know is how Trump supporters can stand by this type of behavior. How is it that Price, but even more the grifting of Trump himself and Mnuchin, for example, is okay. They rail against the "elites" and call for draining the swamp and then when Trump and his cabinet clearly take advantage of their positions for personal gain in a way that epitomizes grift and greed, Trump supporters shrug.
What's with the cognitive dissonance?