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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (390)12/28/2012 1:31:14 PM
From: FJB  Read Replies (3) of 442
 
RE:three-year-old carbon tax has raised nearly one billion euros ($1.3 billion) over all, including 400 million euros in 2012.



You have to laugh at the puniness of Ireland's fiscal issues.


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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year, perks questioned in new book

Read more: dailycaller.com

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.
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