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Originally Posted by Canehdianman
To be fair, I've never paid my own law society dues. It's always been picked up by my employer.
Granted, I need to be an accredited lawyer in order to perform my job, but still...
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I'm sure many would say the same, which leads me to wonder if the "acceptability" of a particular expense by a politician depends on whether a common person expenses the same expense themselves.
Expensing bar dues? Oh, sure, no issue, I do that too.
Expensing a monthly cell phone? No issue, who doesn't?
Expensing $200 meals? Yeah, that's fine....I guess, so long as it doesn't happen too often.
Expensing a $45k trip to some random event? Errrr, I can't, so that sure seems wrong...
Etc....