Perks: There’s free parking, both at the office and at Washington, D.C.-area airports. You get a cheap membership to the house gym, subsidized daycare and access to legislative dining rooms that were once subsidized to the tune of $2 million annually, but are now supposed to be operating at cost, says Sepp. You also can see the legislature’s “attending physician” for a nominal annual cost and get lots of cool little benefits when you retire—like the ability to buy your office furnishings, send mail for free and have a neat little memorial published in the Congressional Record when you die. They even get a special tax deduction of $3,000 to write off living expenses when away from their congressional districts or home states. And like most other executive fringe benefits, the bulk of the perks provided to members of Congress are tax free. - See more at: thefiscaltimes/Articles/2010/08/04/Congress-Living-High-on-the-Backs-of-Taxpayers?page=0%2C1#sthash.2lKC4VNG.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:41:02 +0000
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