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Remember, folks -- this is the same government we're constantly reassured is responsible enough to efficiently manage our healthcare.
Well said.Remember, folks -- this is the same government we're constantly reassured is responsible enough to efficiently manage our healthcare.
Well the reality is this: liberals whine about raising taxes. Well what they clearly can't get through their dense fucking heads is if all the useless shit the government pisses away money on was cleaned up and taxpayer dollars were used more effectively they might see Republicans be a little more willing to budge on that issue if it was truly needed. But I have a real damned hard time seeing a valid argument for raising taxes so we can throw it down the shit hole on crap like this.
This is good too. Why didn't I think of this?
"As much as $1 billion or more in tax credits for energy efficient residential improvements
are being claimed by individuals with no record of owning a home, including prisoners and
underage children."
and then there is this whopper;
Senator Mark Kirk had indicated prior to the debate on the spending bill that he would offer such an amendment, primarily in an effort to find a permanent home for the nuclear waste from the 11 plants in his home state of Illinois (as well as waste accumulated across the nation) and to ensure the nearly $15 billion spent to date on the Yucca Mountain repository and related activities was not squandered.
http://www.newenglandcouncil.com/assets/EE-Comm-Update-Yucca-Mtn-11-28-11.pdf
You guessed it the DOE/NRC has decided to shutter Yucca Mtn. and basically we the taxpayers spent 15 Billion and the several million it will take to shutter it, to dig a hole in Nevada.
Everyone who opposed Yucca Mountain should have a barrel of nuclear waste buried in his back yard.and then there is this whopper;
Senator Mark Kirk had indicated prior to the debate on the spending bill that he would offer such an amendment, primarily in an effort to find a permanent home for the nuclear waste from the 11 plants in his home state of Illinois (as well as waste accumulated across the nation) and to ensure the nearly $15 billion spent to date on the Yucca Mountain repository and related activities was not squandered.
http://www.newenglandcouncil.com/assets/EE-Comm-Update-Yucca-Mtn-11-28-11.pdf
You guessed it the DOE/NRC has decided to shutter Yucca Mtn. and basically we the taxpayers spent 15 Billion and the several million it will take to shutter it, to dig a hole in Nevada.
You mouth the sameold Pubcrappe, and you will lose, dittoheads. Keep those blinders on...
The country's been falling apart under voodoo, and the bloated rich are the only target for a tiny tax raise.
I guess that one gets filed under "Scheme Comes True".I love this one. How can I get a piece of this?
"The federal government sent an average of $120 million in retirement and disability payments to deceased former federal employees every year for at least the past five years.
In a September 2011 report, the Inspector General (IG) for the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management found that ―the amount of post-death improper payments is consistently $100-
$150 million annually, totaling over $601 million in the last five years.
In one example the IG found, an annuitants son cashed his dead fathers checks for 37 years.
The sons scheme, which cost taxpayers more than $500,000, was discovered in 2008, when he himself died. ―The improper payment was not recovered, the IG reported"
Remember, folks -- this is the same government we're constantly reassured is responsible enough to efficiently manage our healthcare.
Well the reality is this: liberals whine about raising taxes. Well what they clearly can't get through their dense fucking heads is if all the useless shit the government pisses away money on was cleaned up and taxpayer dollars were used more effectively they might see Republicans be a little more willing to budge on that issue if it was truly needed. But I have a real damned hard time seeing a valid argument for raising taxes so we can throw it down the shit hole on crap like this.
We're not really talking about fraud in this thread as much as wasteful spending.Remember, folks -- this is the same government we're constantly reassured is responsible enough to efficiently manage our healthcare.
Well the reality is this: liberals whine about raising taxes. Well what they clearly can't get through their dense fucking heads is if all the useless shit the government pisses away money on was cleaned up and taxpayer dollars were used more effectively they might see Republicans be a little more willing to budge on that issue if it was truly needed. But I have a real damned hard time seeing a valid argument for raising taxes so we can throw it down the shit hole on crap like this.
I assume that the "useless shit" you refer to includes money that is lost to outright fraud. What I can't get through my "dense fucking head" is how a financial entity of the size of the US government can reduce the rate at which it is the victim of fraud to zero.
This reminds me of some other bizarre "concessions" I've heard people make:
- I'll compromise on taxes when the rate at which tax money is lost to fraud drops to zero
- I'll compromise on voting laws which restrict legitimate votes when the rate of illegitimate votes drops to zero
- I'll compromise on immigration reform when the rate of illegal border crossings drops to zero
- I'll compromise on counter-terrorism policy when the threat of terrorism drops to zero
- I'll compromise on sentencing reform when the rate of parolee recidivism drops to zero
These are of course vastly different policy matters, but those sentiments (all of which I've seen or heard expressed, often by elected officials) all suffer from the same logical flaw. All of the conditions describe are substantially less likely than independent porcine flight. It is rarely possible to eliminate a problem entirely, and enacting policies intended to do just that will lead to enormous costs without achieving that worthwhile goal.
Fraud should be prevented as much as is practical, but I cannot credit using a finite fraud rate to justify regressive tax rates.
It is rarely possible to eliminate a problem entirely, and enacting policies intended to do just that will lead to enormous costs without achieving that worthwhile goal.
