Posted on 02/17/2011 5:11:53 PM PST by pissant
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: If you pay taxes, this is really going to hurt! Senator Jim DeMint says you, the American people, are getting scammed, scammed out of $39 million -- that's right, $39 million dollars. But guess what? Everyone saw this one coming. It didn't have to happen.
Earlier today, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint went "On the Record."
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VAN SUSTEREN: Senator, nice to see you, sir.
SEN. JIM DEMINT, R-S.C.: Hey, Greta. Good to be back.
VAN SUSTEREN: OK, well, I came up here to talk about the budget proposal, and I'm going to ask you about those. But en route coming up here, I saw the USA Today, in which it says that these very gruesome numbers that inmates has scammed the IRS out of $39 million in 2009. So I'm a bit curious, like, why don't you all figure where the money is before you ask all of us for money in the budget?
DEMINT: Well, it does...
VAN SUSTEREN: $39 million scammed!
DEMINT: Honest -- honest people get ripped off. They send in their taxes every year. But we have a whole group of people, and I didn't know it would be prisoners, but of course, prisoners do amazing things of trading or dealing in drugs and everything behind bars. I don't know how they...
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, it's incredible, $39 million! I mean, who is policing -- this is our money! But I mean, like, we hear all of you talking about the budget, but, like, the fraud is just -- it is skyrocketing! And I mean, I don't understand why in the world there isn't more aggressive search for this money.
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