Posted on 01/01/2026 6:10:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
this is shocking:
we don't need to raise taxes. we need to cut fraud
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BTTT!
And there you have it. 😣
Can we get Musk to come in and kick Congress A$$ to CUT this out?
[Not bloody likely....]
$1.5 T spent on fraudulent activities? That sounds WAY high.
I don’t believe this. Probably the money is wasted but only some is fraudulent. I think they are confusing fraud and waste.
Definitely not a good tradeoff.
I think Trump should demand even more money. Congress will obey his wishes. DOGE found fraud and more money was demanded. The same plan works every time.
Everyone will trust the plan.
The federal income tax was created in the 1910’s (required amending the US Constitution)
on the basis that “the average working man will never pay even one thin dime in the new federal income tax!”
it was sold as an anti-rich-folks measure (think: owners of railroads, steel plants, oil refineries, and big banks)
working people not having to pay the federal income tax would be totally consistent with the promises made to the voters to get the damned tax enacted in the first place
Which never happened because they could not get enough states to ratify it.
Seriously over taxed. Look we’re all OUR MONEY is going, time to stop supporting the world.
Not laying taxes is spreading. If the govt doesn’t get control of the fraud they are gonna have a serious issue on their hands.
COULD ALSO INCREASE SOC SEC FOR ELDERLY
Just a case of semantics, waste is a form of fraud...
CBO.gov says $4.1T was for ‘mandatory’ outlays.
One state (which happens to be the sole holdout from 1984 Reagan wave) is making national waves (unless you listen to MSM where they’re ignoring it) and you think the other states are immune, or maybe it’s not really proportionally bad?
Facts aren’t all known but I’m strongly with those that opine that we’re being robbed blind and could be a free country tomorrow if we could shrug off the thieves. Obviously that will not be an overnight task...
“I’m strongly with those that opine that we’re being robbed blind”
Ditto. But it’s the magnitude that’s open for discussion.
In my own previous estimations, taking all the taxpayer monies across the entire spectrum of government disbursements, I had concluded we were losing $1-1.5 Trillion dollars.
This $9 billion is the figurative tip of the iceberg.
And it is a big iceberg.
Discussion is unhelpful. Stop payments and reauthorize what can be proven lawful. Anything else including this post is just blathering.
Everybody pays their fair share. No free riders.
Hi
This summarizes the issue jf states’ ratification for any interested FRers wishing to jump down the rabbit hole:
https://thelawthatneverwas.com/defects.aspx
Imho, it is probable that patent spelling or punctuation mistakes would be unlikely to impact things now
But if a state’s legislature didn’t approve the proposed amendment then yes that would be central to the issue (since it is the state legislatures which are expected to approve proposals to amend the US Constitution
A historian may wish to delve further
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