By Alex Pappas.
Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on
everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President
Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on
taxpayer-funded presidential perks.
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.
Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4
billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the
presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the
highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed
czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”“The most concerning thing, I think, is the use of taxpayer funds to actually abet his re-election,” Gray, who worked in the Eisenhower administration and for other Republican presidents, said in an interview with TheDC on Wednesday
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