[Free Beacon] IRS employees spent $1.4 million in taxpayer funds on lavish travel and hotels, according to a new report from the Senate Finance Committee.
Sens. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) and Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), the committee’s chairman and ranking member, respectively, wrote in May 2016 to the IRS and other federal agencies to evaluate their travel policies and practices, asking what the costs of those activities were and whether or not the agencies have done anything to reduce costs.
The Finance Committee found that the IRS had 27 employees who traveled 125 business days at a cost of more than $1.4 million in fiscal year 2015. The average cost of each trip totaled $52,800 and lasted an average of 207 days.
One employee racked up $72,544 in hotel costs, spending $43,726 at the Ritz Carlton in Arlington, Virginia, alone. Another employee spent nearly half a year living in the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C., which cost taxpayers $38,799.
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[Guardian] Ordinary people around the world have been failed by globalisation, Justin Trudeau has told the Guardian, as he sought to explain a turbulent year marked by the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of anti-establishment, nation-first parties around the world.
"What we’re facing right now ‐ in terms of the rise of populism and divisive and fearful narratives around the world ‐ it’s based around the fact that globalisation doesn’t seem to be working for the middle class, for ordinary people," the Canadian prime minister said in an interview at his oak-panelled office in the country’s parliament. "And this is something that we identified years ago and built an entire platform and agenda for governing on."
"So that we can beat the proles back into submission," he continued...
Last year, at a time when Trump was being described as a long shot for president and the threat of Brexit seemed a distant possibility, Trudeau, 44, swept to a majority government on an ambitious platform that included addressing growing inequality and creating real change for the country’s middle class.
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Pierre Trudeau was a nazi following Adrien Arcan, the chief of Adolf Hitler in Canada, how did thousand of Jews got expelled out pack to Germany to be murdered!...When nazis were kicked out, Trudeau flipped to communist, the follower of Fidel Castro...Today, his brat Justin Trudeau is a hidden muslim, a danderous hypocrite...DEWARE!
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[Free Beacon] IRS employees spent $1.4 million in taxpayer funds on lavish travel and hotels, according to a new report from the Senate Finance Committee.
Yes, there's something to be said for congressional resolve. Not very much mind you. But something to be said. 
