The Bureaucrats’ Newest Perk

Craig Eyermann

For a lot of Americans, simply getting to or from work represents a significant expense. In fact, earlier this year, CNN‘s Kathryn Vasel totaled up the average annual expense that Americans pay just so that they can earn an income:

Workers spend 200 hours annually at a cost of nearly $2,600 on their daily commute, according to Citi’s ThankYou Premier Commuter Index released Wednesday.
That breaks down to about $10 a day being spent on getting to and from work.
People in Los Angeles face the highest daily roundtrip costs at $16, with New Yorkers coming in second at $14. Commuters in Chicago and San Francisco pay $11 a day, according to the survey.

But for many of the federal government’s bureaucrats in Washington D.C., their personal cost for commuting to and from their jobs is about to drop to zero, because the $1.1 trillion government spending bill signed by President Obama back on December 16, 2015 will effectively allow them to ride the city’s Metro light rail system for free, even at peak rush hour fares. Kathryn Watson of the Daily Caller Foundation reports: .......the cost to U.S. taxpayers of fully subsidizing the commutes of these federal government employees would add up to $760,410,000 per year. ........To Read More....