Working for the Pennsylvania Turnpike is a pretty sweet deal, according to an audit released last week. Toll payers bought private vehicles worth more than $28,000 for each of the turnpike's five commissioners—and picked up the tab for maintenance and fuel. The turnpike’s 2,104 employees don’t have to pay at toll booths—nor do 5,000 politicians, bureaucrats, consultants, and contractors.

From The Newspaper:

The free travel amounted to $5.5 million worth of trips, although the auditor believes this is an underestimate because no records are kept of employee use of this perk. The governor's office received 21 free transponders, the lieutenant governor received one, and state department of transportation officials received eight.

… In addition to $26,000 in salaries, the commissioners enjoyed $539,201 in benefits over the audit period [January 2007 to August 2011]. No limits were placed on expense accounts for commissioners traveling to conferences around the world. Commissioners stayed in luxury hotel suites and received free vehicles and electronic devices for personal use, all paid for with toll revenue.

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Read More:http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/13/audit-...ke-officials-em

Corbett better step up and put an immediate stop to this or he is going to look like the typical deadbeat pol when reelection comes around.

How in the hell, is this legal, for all that trash not to pay, here I thought the only ones that rode for free were cops. Something smells, this is not legal.
not charging politicians is open bribing.

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How in the hell, is this legal, for all that trash not to pay, here I thought the only ones that rode for free were cops. Something smells, this is not legal.
not charging politicians is open bribing.

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