Michelle reported on the Judicial Watch release of documents on Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) use of military planes for travel.  She then called foul on the MSM outlets calling this whole thing insignificant. 

This morning on “Cashin’ In,” Wayne Rogers said it costs taxpayers about $30,000 per week to use the military travel.  I couldn’t find that figure anywhere, but I did find an old Jake Tapper article that said the C-32 (the non-stop plane) costs about $22,000 an hour to fly.  At that rate, $30,000 sounds like a low-ball figure, so I’ll use this to point out just how “insignificant” this is.

The bottom 50% of taxpayers, individuals or families who make $30,881 or less (2005 data), pay an average of $483 per year in federal income taxes*.  These are the poor people that Pelosi and her Dem cronies purport to help so often.  To fund her jaunt for one week, it takes one year’s tax money of 62 families.  If she uses the service only half the year, 26 weeks, the total for the year is $780,000, which is one year’s tax money of 1,615 families!

That’s not insignificant.

* I got this figure by taking the numbers from the last line on the first table at the data link.  I took the income taxes paid divided by the number of returns to come up with an average figure.