BPR: For American taxpayers, John McCain’s six-term senate career is the “gift” that keeps on taking. A $174,000 “death gratuity” will be paid to Senator McCain’s family, in keeping with a longstanding tradition of giving a year’s salary to a departed lawmaker’s next of kin.
The $174,000 gratuity will be tacked onto the next federal appropriations bill for taxpayers to bankroll, Roll Call reported. While the practice is nothing new, it raised eyebrows because John McCain’s widow, Cindy McCain, is a wealthy heiress whose net worth reportedly tops $100 million.
Cindy inherited the chairmanship and majority control of Hensley & Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the United States, upon her dad’s death in 2000.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump donated his $400,000 presidential salary to various federal agencies. And Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner both forgo their six-figure White House salaries. more here
That murdering bastard is burning in Hell for eternity…we win!
Before we start means testing social security which taxpayers have actually been forced to pay into throughout their lifetime perhaps we should means test these ridiculous ‘gifts’ and pensions etc. that are provided to congressmen, many that entered with virtually nothing and somehow left multi-millionaires. The McCain family does not need any more gifts from taxpayers.
Why the flip not? It’s only taxpayer money, after all.
I would have considerably less of a problem with this IF MCCAIN HADN’T BEEN PAID EVERY SINGLE YEAR HE SERVED IN THE DAMN SENATE INCLUDING WHILE HE WAS TOO SICK TO VOTE!
Blood Money
Glad to know as a taxpayer, I can help pay for this. When I croak, the family gets nada.
Why don’t we dig his ass up and cryogenically preserve his head until we can cure his cancer? That way we can continue to pay for his RINO ass in perpetuity.
…and while Trump is shutting this shit down get every last Goddamn one of them, as well as their staff, onto mandatory Social Security and ObamaCare while he is at it
Typical politician still stealing the taxpayers money even in death !
A tradition? Really!
Why dress it, it’s called stealing. I know of no company or government department, state or local, that deals out money so freely.
I dunno, if you look at it as a way for the country to say “we’re grateful he’s dead” then it’s not really an issue to me.
The elite take care of themselves first and foremost.
Hey, how about NOT taxing my social security check, assholes.
I would have dug his hole for half that
The rotting corpse is still screwing over Americans!
But at least his corpse is rotting. #MAGADEATH (Get it?)
This article goes from ashy to classy.
He wrote the anonymous NYT editorial
@Zonga….wow, you nailed it!…best comment I’ve read in over 3 weeks!!!…..I think Zonga is ‘Q’….
@Cynic September 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm
> if you look at it as a way for the country to say “we’re grateful he’s dead” then it’s not really an issue to me
You’re ignoring the “time value” of money. $174,000 twenty years ago? Meh. But what’s that $174,000 worth in 2018 dollars? (Negative values are acceptable answers.)
How much did he make from the Keating Savings and Loan fraud?
Please! just quit showing the bastard’s picture! All of us have sufficient bad memory of him and what he did to the country to make repeated shots of his face unnecessary.
@ willysgoatgruff
heh! I’m not Q but I think I went to the Senior Prom with him…