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Treasury Department investigators are probing an Aug. 15 trip taken by Secretary Steve Mnuchin from New York to Washington, D.C., in which he used a government jet that cost American taxpayers at least $25,000, ABC News reported on Friday.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/treasury-probing-dollar25k-mnuchin-flight-from-new-york-to-dc/ar-AAsmL8e?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)syortsed (this particular) nacilbuper.
Initech
(100,080 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)... according to President Cheney.
yardwork
(61,649 posts)drray23
(7,633 posts)it costs a lot of money to fly a jet especially for one person..
Skittles
(153,169 posts)I am asking a pilot.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)his response:
Real versus adjusted cost. Real cost is is the "wet lease" price of fuel, personnel salaries and administrative costs for flight planning. Mostly fuel. Probably $1200/hour in gas.
The $25k is the adjusted cost that includes wear and tear estimates, and personnel's medical/retirement, etc. Not just for the crew, but for everyone involved in flight planning and ground handling as well.
Congress passed a law that DoD be reimbursed for adjusted costs. Adjusted costs are also used to depreciate capital expenditures for tax purposes, which makes aircraft leasing and ownership more attractive.
Same reason why mileage deductions for automobiles are significantly higher than the actual cost of driving one mile.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)"Both sides do it" "speech" by Wreckitman
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)I wonder where he got his charter?
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)And it is more impressive.
JI7
(89,251 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and somehow they imaginatively bloat themselves to deform as republican-russian versions of "royalty" who garishly feel entitled to super-special, top-of-the-line luxuries at the cost of reaming hard-working American taxpayers.
That sucks. Bigly.
Don't need no steenkin "royal" class around here. This is the USA.