No, Sanders’ Secret Service Detail Isn’t Costing ‘Taxpayers’ $38,000 a Day

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Washington Post political reporter John Wagner (6/19/16) reported on Bernie Sanders’ continuing Secret Service detail, throwing in a too-clever-by-half talking point that has since gone viral. In “An Expensive Reminder That Sanders Still Hasn’t Dropped Out: His Secret Service Detail,” Wagner used an eight-year-old stat to provide urgency to his

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[ponyboy]

excellent article.

[invisiblegirlx]

even after he's basically out they can't resist trying to smear him.

[arisma]

Trying to salt the earth.

[spiritoftherain]

And the nastier anti-Sanders fiends want to document his downfall just to feel good about themselves for backing the winning horse.

Gonna be fun to see if any of Clinton's policies will end up adversely affecting them.

[jeeelim5]

This whole kerfuffle has been so stupid.

If people really care that much about where taxpayer money is going, maybe they should be asking why the US spent close to 600 billion dollars last year on its defense budget. (More than the next seven highest national defense budgets combined)

Also, I'm side-eyeing that tweet from Debra Messing. Like, what even...

[blackjedii]

Debra has gotten into Twitter wars previously over her very vocal support of candidates.

It's kind of cringeworthy. Celebs and Twitter.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/31/susan-sarandon-debra-messing-trump-clinton-sanders

[belleweather]

Hahaha, I think I said exactly this when the original article was posted. (On the other hand, I think this type of thinking is a consequence of the bill that required federal government units to charge each other for the services they provide, which encourages this sort of nickle-and-dime thinking and frustrates any interagency cooperation or, you know, getting things actually done.)

[amyura]

Time for some math. To make things easy, let's bump that 38K up to 39K, since 39 is divisible by 3 and with the painkillers I'm on, integers are easier for me to deal with. Let's similarly round the US population DOWN to 300 million. 39,000/300,000,000 = .00013 per day, or 13 cents per American for almost a year's make that three years' worth of protection. When the election season is not even two years long. And that's with me rounding UP the cost and DOWN the number of Americans.

If Messing cares THAT much about the victims and their families in Orlando, why doesn't she suggest Americans who feel similarly donate directly to them? Re-allocating funds necessarily eats some of those funds in overhead costs.