The price of a President

[mapuc]

As many of you may know Denmark is a monarchy and the head of this monarchy is the Queen Margrethe II

The Queen and her husband Prince Henrik gets about 1187142 $ every month in upkeep

The Queen is very popular, however there are people that want to replace her with a president

They say it would be a lot cheaper

The Queen has to pay wages to her employees and 10 % of her upkeep is Prince Henrik's "spending cash"

So my question is how much does the President in USA get every month and shall he pay wages to his employees to?

Markus

[vienna]

This may answer some of your questions:


http://www.presidentsusa.net/presidents_salary.html


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[Wolferz]

More than he's worth.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by vienna

This may answer some of your questions:


http://www.presidentsusa.net/presidents_salary.html


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Thank you for the link

Since 2001 the President of USA gets every year $400000 this is what I understand his own money. He has to pay for his own food
(While the President technically has to pay for his own food)

Additionally to his salary, the President gets numerous expense accounts

Have used the currency calculator to calculate how much 400000 is in Danish and some of the other money he gets. It seems that the President of US is a very expensive employee.

I guess a Danish President wouldn't get that much in salary.

And then you have the Senate and the Congress= The Danish Folketinget.

Markus

[vienna]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Thank you for the link

...And then you have the Senate and the Congress= The Danish Folketinget.

Markus

The really big expense is the surrounding bureaucracy which is immense and extremely unwieldy. There is a lot of "pork" in the business of government and a lot of obstacles in the way of reforming the situation. Take, for example, the current problems in the US Veterans Administration: While there are a lot of calls for the resignation of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (most vociferously from the opposition party; it is an election year, after all), the sad truth is the upper-level and mid-level officials in the Veterans Administration are protected by numerous laws and regulations so that even if they have failed or are derelict in their duties, there is little or no possibility of removing them from their post as a means of changing the system. Its rather like trying to kill cockroaches cutting off their heads -- the body still keeps moving and lives on...


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[TarJak]

Take a look at Britain. Replacing the monarchy doesn't reduce their cost. Unless you take the French solution.

[Catfish]

Ask the 'Windsors' how they managed to go by WW1

Those sneaky Saxo-Coburg-Gothas