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Minnesota Is Just the Beginning: A Nationwide Web of Welfare Fraud Is Unraveling
Minnesota Is Just the Beginning: A Nationwide Web of Welfare Fraud Is Unraveling | @AmacforAmerica
A $9 billion taxpayer fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals deeper welfare abuse nationwide. Trump’s reforms aim to fight back.
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With evidence emerging of more than $9 billion worth of taxpayer fraud in Minnesota, the media are finally starting to cover the problem of criminals stealing from the taxpayer. But fraud is by no means limited to Minnesota—it is a nationwide problem that leaders at both the federal and state levels need to tackle before it gets even worse.
Even the New York Times was forced to take notice, publishing an explosive article showing evidence of more than $1 billion of taxpayer money stolen by about 80 different Somali immigrants to Minnesota. Just days after the Minnesota story broke, a Somali immigrant in Maine was accused by a whistleblower of defrauding both Medicaid and the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program. The alleged fraudster in the case, while ostensibly working in Maine, ran for office in Somalia and boasted of raising money for the Somali military. According to the whistleblower, his non-profit organization had, for years, sought reimbursement from the federal government for non-existent “services” under Medicaid.
Now, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced charges against two Boston men for trafficking more than $7 million worth of food stamps, and a local news station in Oregon uncovered more than $91,000 in food stamp fraud in Oregon just in the month of November alone.
This dizzying list of fraud cases just keeps getting longer.
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The non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) has documented nearly $3 trillion in known waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government over the last 22 years. This number is just the waste, fraud, and abuse that we know about—and it does not even include all federal programs. According to GAO, more than 10 cents out of every food stamp dollar is wasted or stolen.
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But there is a lot more to do. Many states, including Minnesota, Maine, and Massachusetts, are using budget gimmicks to hide the real rate of fraud from the federal government. The most salient is called Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility, which is when states don’t bother to check if someone is eligible for one welfare program if they’re already receiving another kind of welfare. This just multiplies fraud where it occurs and gives the false impression to the federal government—and to voters—that fraud is less common than it really is. Every state in America needs to stop using this blatant loophole, do their jobs, and check to ensure that people receiving our tax dollars are actually eligible.
This holiday season’s string of fraud cases is infuriating to hardworking Americans who pay their taxes and follow the rules. But after decades of waste and fraud of our tax dollars, they ought to be the trigger that finally leads to the real reforms we need.
Commentary:
DSA Marxist Leftists will deny that there is fraud, waste and abuse. But everyone knows it is true at scales that are mind boggling.
All the welfare fraud comes from democrats. ALL OF IT!
The problem is that there are democrats in the USA, end of story, period, full stop.
It's theft. Larceny on an almost unimaginable scale.
Fraud vs. Improper Payments
While fraud and improper payments are related concepts, they don’t mean the same thing.
Fraud is obtaining something of value through willful misrepresentation. Fraud can sometimes involve benefits that do not result in direct financial loss to the government (such as passport fraud).
Improper payments are payments that should not have been made or that were made in the incorrect amount; typically they are overpayments. While all fraudulent payments are considered improper, not all improper payments are due to fraud.
Waste, abuse, and mismanagement are related but distinct concepts from fraud and improper payments. Waste is when individuals or organizations spend government resources carelessly, extravagantly, or without purpose. Abuse of federal resources occurs when someone behaves improperly or unreasonably, or misuses a position or authority.
Reducing both fraud and improper payments is critical to safeguarding federal funds, ensuring that federal agencies execute their missions effectively, and making sure that the public maintains trust in the government.
As a side note, if Socialism is so great, why do all the Leftists who are protesting or threatening to leave the USA, never move to a Socialist country?
If Nicolás Maduro was such a decent Marxist Socialist, why did a quarter of Venezuela’s population, nearly 10 million people, flee to other countries?
Now we have Zohran Mandami and his radical appointees, threatening to “impoverish the white middle class” and seize private property.
If Sharia Law is so great, why don’t these folks move to the Islamic country of their choice and practice it to their heart’s content?
(I hear Somalia is nice this time of year)
The vast majority of Americans reject the far Left’s agenda and their asinine policies, just want to work, provide for their families in peace, not have their wealth stolen by confiscatory taxes for nefarious purposes, and be left the hell alone.
Lastly, when are crooks, like Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, and Keith Ellison going to be held accountable?
