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I’m far from an anti-tax extremist, but it’s hard to read articles like this (that appear every year or two) and not be frustrated at calls to raise taxes in th
by balderdash 4y ago
I’m far from an anti-tax extremist, but it’s hard to read articles like this (that appear every year or two) and not be frustrated at calls to raise taxes in the same news cycle, when there is clearly so much abuse and waste in the system, that if largely eliminated would pay for so much! (E.g. eliminating $90b of fraud in Medicare, would allow for a 5% increase in discretionary spending across the board, without looking to the taxpayer!)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
- throwaway173738 4y agoIf you’d read the rest of the article, the reason there is a lot of uninvestigated fraud is because there isn’t currently funding to pay for enough investigators to drive around places like south florida. In the same vein I’d gladly pay the extra $20/year or so to let the IRS staff up enough that it doesn’t take them 8 months to deposit a check and release my tax return.
- costco 4y agoI don't get why haven't they just hired more fraud investigators and people to recover proceeds then? It is laughable that the government only started to even remotely acknowledge the Medicare fraud issue in the 2000s. We are talking about tens of billions of dollars stolen every year for the past 30+ years. There are prosecutions but only in a fraction of cases because there are simply so many of them. You could even have something like the NYC Marshal system where they get a % of everything they recover. It's not hard to find pharmacies that 80% of the time prescribe expensive compounded medications that are incredibly rare in the real world or "telemedicine" doctors who are signing off on hundreds of prescriptions a day.