Sun
May 27 2007
05:14 pm
By: Sandra Clark
check out (link...) for info on the highest paid county officials and their supplementary pay, disguised as "travel expense." Remember, many of these employees also drive take-home vehicles. -- s.
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Link doesn't work.
Link doesn't work.
Fixed.
Fixed.
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
But for werner its a must for travel.
taxes?
wonder what does the irs think about this?
Fixed.
Good
So...?
I have bought a tank of gas recently, and--without seeing some details--those travel expense numbers don't look out of line. For example, a county commissioner would only have to drive about 22 miles a day to accumulate $3900 of local travel at the IRS's $.485/mile. That's not very hard to do.
Which travel numbers don't
Which travel numbers don't look out of line?
Does $770 every two weeks seem in line to you for a guy who's driving a county-owned Tahoe and carrying a Pilot credit card for his gas, as well as getting a free ride on maintenance and insurance?
Exactly. It's double
Exactly. It's double dipping.