Time to Crack Down on Fraud |
Why pay taxes when so much of your hard-earned money goes to fraudsters instead of doing good?
Government bureaucrats and elected politicians, mostly Democrats, scream in outrage when any effort is made to crack down on fraud by requiring proof of where the money is actually going. They wring their hands that safeguards will delay the funds and warn of children going hungry or families in need.
Meanwhile, all of us taxpayers, saddled with paying for the scammers, are routinely ignored.
Until now. The enormity of the Minneapolis welfare rip-off is sparking a nationwide rebellion against welfare criminals and the politicians who tolerate them. The Minneapolis fraud epidemic, which has gone on since 2014, robbed taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars supposed to support subsidized day care, autism services, and "Feeding Our Future" meals for the poor.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been forced to give up his bid for reelection. But more importantly, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul are on the hot seat to explain the even bigger taxpayer rip-offs they have allowed to go on in their states.
And more state politicians will be feeling the heat. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says a nauseating 10 percent of the federal budget is spent on fraud. Some politicians benefit directly, but many more are too cowardly to call it out, fearing accusations of racism or cruelty to the........