Lawmakers Living Large

[Nakosis]

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Ninety-two percent of lawmakers have leadership PACs, which are separate from their campaign accounts and aren’t subject to the same restrictions on how donors’ money can be spent.

The report found that in the 116th Congress, 120 leadership PACs spent less than 50 percent of their money on politics, with the rest going to things like meals at upscale restaurants and stays at elite resorts. Those PACs together spent more than $2 million at hotels and resorts, $220,000 at sporting events and concerts, $190,000 at ski resorts and $150,000 at steakhouses.
Lawmakers using leadership PACs as 'slush funds' to live lavish lifestyles: report

What is better than being rich?
Living as if you were rich on other people's money.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

There need to be limits on lobbying. Lousy Citizen's United!

 

[Nakosis]

More related to world leaders but...

While many of the alleged shell companies and offshore accounts are located in places like the British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Hong Kong and Belize, the Washington Post—one of the papers involved in the investigation—noted that the most “troubling revelations for the United States” centered around the complicity of some U.S. states in the offshore economy. The Post notes that South Dakota, Nevada and others have adopted financial secrecy laws that rival those of several infamous tax-havens. The papers show that a former vice president of the Dominican Republic finalized several trusts in South Dakota to store his personal wealth and shares of one of the country's largest sugar producers.
Pandora Papers: Major World Leaders—King Abdullah II, Tony Blair, Andrej Babis—Accused Of Secretive Offshore Financial Dealings
Apparently a number of UK offshore accounts.
What's wrong with you Brits?

 

[tytlyf]

Another reason to vote Blue. Republicans are corrupt and crooked.

 

[Jeremiah Ames]

There needs ti be limits on lobbying. Lousy Citizen's United!

I disagree.
No limits. Just make lobbying and lobbyists illegal.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Another reason to vote Blue. Republicans are corrupt and crooked.

Help pay for Harris vacations.

And Obamas meager and humble lifestyle...

 

[metis]

What is better than being rich?
Living as if you were rich on other people's money.

And they get lifetime healthcare and yet the Pubs refuse to grant that to the rest of us "peons"-- or is it pee ons?

 

[Kooky]

What is better than being rich?
Living as if you were rich on other people's money.

Fundamentally, all rich people live on other people's money.