Tom Price's truly amazing plane apology

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Tom Price’s truly amazing plane apology

By Alexandra Petri September 28 at 7:35 PM

Don’t worry, everyone.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, he who liked to take tiny expensive planes from one point to another, has been shown the error of his ways, and he is paying back $51.887.31 to the U. S. Treasury as a beautiful, symbolic gesture to the taxpayer. (That’s enough, according to Gary Cohn, to buy 57 brand new cars or redo 57 kitchens!) The total cost of his travel, as Politico found, was more than $400,000, but why should a little thing like that spoil the loveliness of this selfless act? He is only supposed to cover the cost of one SEAT on those planes, not the cost of flying the rest of the plane, a factor entirely out of his control.

“The taxpayers,” he wrote, “won’t pay a dime for my seat on those planes.” No, they won’t pay a dime. They will pay something around $350,000.
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Alexandra Petri writes the ComPost blog, offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day. She is the author of "A Field Guide to Awkward Silences." Follow @petridishes

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by Steven Nelson | Sep 28, 2017, 3:33 PM

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1. I do not accept Price's lame apology

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2. When You Hire Rich People To Fill Cabinet Posts - What Do You Expect.....

As rich people - it is beneath them to travel the way us peons do. The rich are accustomed to traveling on private jets. It is their way of life. You think just because they are now a public official that they are going to change their way of life.

The only thing that will change for them is that they won't have to travel on their dime - they can now use OPM (other people's money) - our taxpayer money - to get them from DC to Philadelphia.

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3. We want Price to pay the difference between the cost of his seat and what the charter cost.

We are more than happy to pay the cost of him traveling commercial, which is what he wants to pay. We want him to pay the cost of the charters OVER what his seat would have cost on a commercial flight - that is the amount he wasted.