No wonder they're in no hurry to pass a budget. The living is easy in Harrisburg ... as long as other people are paying the bills.

From a recent column by Brad Bumsted about how lawmakers are spending your hard-earned tax dollars:

During the 2007-08 session, the House chief clerk's office spent almost $250,000 on catered dinners for lawmakers, most of whom were collecting $146 per day for food and lodging costs.

It's one of those many expenditures you rarely hear about. It's yet another example of how your tax money gets frittered away at the Capitol.

Sometimes it was "just" pizza. But pizza for a 203-member legislative body doesn't come cheap.

Try $680 at Papa John's on March 10, 2008.

That same day, the House spent $4,612 on food from Zia's catering.

Double dippin' in H'burg - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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