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marble falls

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4. "Optics". That would have kept me out of 1st class and not taking a pay check untill ...

Reply to Atticus (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 23, 2019, 09:04 AM

Jan 2019

this shit is over. It just did't look right.

If my boss "gives" me meals at work in a restaurant, the IRS collects taxes on it. If he got a service past his base pay - in this case tourist - why wouldn't he owe taxes on the value of the upgrade to 1st class? No free lunches, right?

It just didn't look good.

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Passenger Confronts GOP Congressman Rodney Davis, IL-13 over Flying First Class During Shutdown [View all] beachbum bob Jan 2019 OP

He shouldn't fly 1st class at any time. Soxfan58 Jan 2019 #1

K&R ck4829 Jan 2019 #2

Davis is, indeed, a disgusting POS, BUT---this is not the outrage the article portrays. Atticus Jan 2019 #3

"Optics". That would have kept me out of 1st class and not taking a pay check untill ... marble falls Jan 2019 #4

Don't disagree at all. It's just that Davis is SUCH a Trump sycophant and corporate whore Atticus Jan 2019 #6

Dick Durbin refuses to upgrade to first class, Ray Lahood, a GOP guy also beachbum bob Jan 2019 #5