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Среди различных форм раздачи денег налогоплательщиков родственникам и знакомым кролика строительство дорог, мостов и прочих чудес инженерии традиционно считается одним из более полезных. А вот как оно делается на самом деле:
Design and engineering companies helping to build the nation's highways
ran up millions of dollars in inappropriate charges at the expense of
taxpayers, including bills for parties, luxury car leases and hefty
paychecks for executives, according to auditors.
Among the "unallowable expenses" singled out:
$355,767 to pay the personal income taxes of executives.
$301,667 to lease 45 automobiles, including Mercedes, BMW and other luxury brands.
$247,685 for dinners, tickets to sporting events, theme-holiday parties.
$60,000 paid to a consultant with only a verbal agreement.
$35,352 charged by two firms for "image-enhancing items such as golf shirts."
The Transportation Department audit, which took four years, examined
bills from a sampling of 41 design and engineering firms picked from
3,580 firms that had active contracts with state departments of
transportation. Auditors looked at data from 2003 because it was the
most current year available when the review began.
С другой стороны, поскольку - насколько я понимаю эту теорию - в кейнсианской теории совершенно не важно, куда расходуются деньги, главное, чтобы они расходовались - дилеры БМВ, организаторы вечеринок и изготовители рубашек имеют на эти деньги не меньшее право, чем строители мостов, так что ничего особенного тут нет.
Design and engineering companies helping to build the nation's highways
ran up millions of dollars in inappropriate charges at the expense of
taxpayers, including bills for parties, luxury car leases and hefty
paychecks for executives, according to auditors.
Among the "unallowable expenses" singled out:
$355,767 to pay the personal income taxes of executives.
$301,667 to lease 45 automobiles, including Mercedes, BMW and other luxury brands.
$247,685 for dinners, tickets to sporting events, theme-holiday parties.
$60,000 paid to a consultant with only a verbal agreement.
$35,352 charged by two firms for "image-enhancing items such as golf shirts."
The Transportation Department audit, which took four years, examined
bills from a sampling of 41 design and engineering firms picked from
3,580 firms that had active contracts with state departments of
transportation. Auditors looked at data from 2003 because it was the
most current year available when the review began.
С другой стороны, поскольку - насколько я понимаю эту теорию - в кейнсианской теории совершенно не важно, куда расходуются деньги, главное, чтобы они расходовались - дилеры БМВ, организаторы вечеринок и изготовители рубашек имеют на эти деньги не меньшее право, чем строители мостов, так что ничего особенного тут нет.