Bill's Bills Cost US a Record $8M

Clinton costs twice as much as Carter
By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 11, 2008 4:37 AM CDT
Bill's Bills Cost US a Record $8M
Bill and Hillary Clinton at a fund raiser. They have earned $100M since he left office, leading some to question $8M worth of publicly funded perks.    (AP Photo/Andrew Theodorakis, Pool)

Bill Clinton is costing taxpayers significantly more in publicly funded perks than the two other surviving former presidents, reports Politico. From 2001 through the end of this year, $8 million will be spent on Bill Clinton, compared with $5.5 million for George H. W. Bush and $4 million for Jimmy Carter during the same period. A big chunk goes to lifelong secret service protection, pension, staff and travel expenses.

Clinton has earned more than $100 million since leaving office, causing some to question his reliance on the taxpayer for $420,000 in phone bills and $3.2 million in office rent. “The benefits taxpayers shell out for their care and feeding just don’t make sense anymore,” said a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union. (More Bill Clinton stories.)

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