The Government’s $16.00 A Piece Muffins Goes the Way of the Welfare Queen’s Cadillac and Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves

Another Fact Exposed as Myth

Earlier this year a government audit revealed that the Justice Department had paid $16.00 each for muffins at a conference.  The news was trumpeted as proof positive that the Federal government was out of control and that Federal spending was totally and completely a waste of the taxpayer’s money.

Now of course it turns out the story was just not true.

On Friday, acting Justice ­Department Inspector General Cynthia A. Schnedar issued a revised report on the department’s conference expenditures. Her new finding: The muffins were part of a continental breakfast that also included items such as fruit, coffee, tea, juice and other pastries.

The new report does not break out a cost for the muffins alone, but a Hilton spokesman has said the entire breakfast cost $16 per person, including taxes and gratuity.

So the $16.00 was not per muffin, it was for an entire Continental Breakfast including tax and tip and a bunch of other things.  This is, of course a better story, but The Dismal Political Economist is not all that satisfied.  For him a Continental Breakfast is what you get free with your room at Days Inn, and for about $6.00 including tax and tip he gets a pretty good real breakfast at Waffle House. Try it, Justice Department and save some money.