>Show me some government frauds in their league.
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>Tomorrow I'm going to give you some numbers....but for right now, it's ironic you mentioned the IRS.
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>- The IRS has acknowledged that IRS ID Fraud has skyrocketed in the last 5 years. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration estimates that the IRS pays out more than 5 billion a year in fraudulent claims.
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>TIGTA, the Taxpayer Advocate Service, and the GAO have all made low-cost recommendations to the IRS to combat this, and have reported that the IRS has ignored most of their requests.....
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>(and I haven't even begun to talk about the news concerning IRS getting involved in politics, with IRS chief counsel William Wilkins stating he wanted to review every single Tea Party 501c3 and 501c4 application, and Lois Lerner telling the DNC that the Federal Election Commission might "save the day" regarding the danger the Tea Party presented. I hope the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee can put some teeth into their pursuit - because there are people in this scandal who deserve to go to jail.)
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>- On Food Stamps...Food Stamp trafficking up from 330 million in 2006-2008 to 858 million in 2009-2011
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>- The Federal Government spends roughly 20-25 billion a year maintaining unused/vacant properties. Greta Van Sustren (the only Fox person I like) did a devastating report on this.
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>- Health care fraud costs tens of billions every year and it's not hard to predict this will skyrocket once the exchanges go up, given the lack of verification
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>- And finally, earned income tax credit fraud (though the govt uses the term "improper payments". They acknowledge that roughly 1 in every 5 dollars they pay out on EIC tax credits is improper.
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>I just find it stunning that the IRS will get involved in the AHCA.

>>Think we've got problems now????
Yes, lots of problems indeed.

I'll look forward to the numbers showing that fraud, waste and abuse are at record levels.
My feeble arithmetic skills tell me that the items you've enumerated might add up to what Halliburton made on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.