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Originally Posted by David Atkatz
For comparison, President Obama just released his 2011 tax form. He donated $172,000 out of an adjusted gross of almost $790,000. That's 21.8%, more than ten times Jeter's rate.
And Obama will shake your hand for free.
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Seriously?? Perhaps on the off chance that you get close enough to him to interact. However, for a planned meet and greet ala Jeter, the charge is a minimum of $10,000 for a photo with him on March 30 (and here's my source
http://www.kjonline.com/news/cost-to...012-02-28.html
Or, if you can't catch that one, perhaps you can make this one. It will only set you back a minimum of $35,800 per ticket:
http://ajwatchdc.wordpress.com/2012/...r-costs-35800/
I'd probably be willing to venture that there will be some sort of "official" business on these trips as well in order that John Q. Public can pick up the travel tab for the President.