Because it's not about fraud per se, it's about punishing a specific class of people. We see this in the US, too. Conservative politicians who are also trying

Because it's not about fraud per se, it's about punishing a specific class of people. We see this in the US, too. Conservative politicians who are also trying to cut down welfare, but maybe not through such extreme means, are also very much against a recent expansion of the IRS (the US' tax enforcement group).