Now that HHS Secretary Tom Price has resigned over his abuse of chartered flights and the taxpayers who funded them, it’s helpful both to have some perspective and to see this as a microcosm of why the 2016 election happened.
While it is truly hard to fathom what Price, a smart guy and successful physician, was thinking in charging taxpayers over $1 million on flights since May alone, let’s be honest: His behavior was just the latest example of the longstanding D.C. tradition of taxpayer dollars being abused by “public servants.” These abuses have been perpetrated by both Republican and Democrat administrations and members of Congress (Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s ongoing federal corruption trial is evidence of that).
What’s more painful is the blatant hypocrisy of Price’s actions. Not too long ago, then-Congressman Price was calling out Democrats for their use of private jets, calling it yet “another example of fiscal irresponsibility run amok in Congress right now.”
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