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2021-12-29 Government Corruption

'No Fault Of Anybody:' $100 Billion Is Stolen From Taxpayers Via COVID Relief Funds

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Posted by Fred 2021-12-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 In private industry, there’s accountability.

This point is evergreen; just look at the Earned Income Tax Credit - same deal there with all the fraud that's committed to get those big & easy refunds, and that shit's been going on as long as I've been banging out 1040's, so the order of magnitude is comparable between these two things.

Posted by Raj 2021-12-29 00:24|| 2021-12-29 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program was raised by friends and family of members of Congress as well as major corporations whose CEOs were being bought by members of Congress through these programs.

Truelly small businesses got only a fraction if nothing through the programs.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-29 00:37|| 2021-12-29 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^^ raised = raided

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-29 00:39|| 2021-12-29 00:39|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^^-- As Designed.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-12-29 00:41|| 2021-12-29 00:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Should have just sent a check to every taxpayer who filed a federal tax return the year before. Let them trickle the money down to businesses.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-29 05:02|| 2021-12-29 05:02|| Front Page Top

#6 #FJB had to pay some people off. It's nobody's fault. Get over it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-12-29 12:10|| 2021-12-29 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 That's only about $300 per person, well below the new $1000 threshold for theft to be considered prosecutable...

Posted by Glenmore 2021-12-29 13:22|| 2021-12-29 13:22|| Front Page Top

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