Comment by throwitaway222

We still don't have a working model of a government doing a good job in the real world when it comes to carte blanch giving groups money. It does work really well when it's on the private side. The crux of the issue is that I pay too much in Taxes for 30% of it to be spent on downright fraud. Whether that is daycare scams, military spending scams, hospice scams, etc...

Since about 30% of my lifetime pay goes to taxes, and I am estimated over my entire life to make about $7m in salary. $1M of that is taxed, so potentially 300k of money is going to SCAMS.

Think about it, what if the government just decided tomorrow to give back all this money. I could finally afford to buy a house! But instead of me being able to buy a house, let's put another million bucks in a suitcase to fly to Mogadishu.