[nypokerface]

Hmmm. Cut fraud instead of hiking taxes. Thats so crazy it might just work.

[goldstategop]

They just raised taxes in NY. I'm afraid the horse's fled the barn.

[nypokerface]

Sorry. It's "New York Daily News".

[Slyfox]

Right now, in New York we have an impeached ex-president who spends millions of hard-earned American tax dollars on plane trips and women and cigars and women and motorcade trips and women. And he's going to pay whatever paltry taxes his DOES pay with OUR tax money.

[Alberta's Child]

The problem with this "reduce fraud" idea is that it will be largely inconsequential. New York City is facing a $6 billion budget deficit next year. Forget about fraud -- if the city spends $175 million in disability claims each year, then it would have to eliminate all disability payments -- legitimate and fraudulent -- for 34 years just to cover next year's budget shortfall.

They make a good point with the comparison to the Big Dig, though. Massive fraud only becomes a problem when the government institutions that are involved are so large that the amount of money lost to fraud is nothing more than pocket change.

[blackdog]

File this baby with the $10.00 per hour minimum wage rule. In a liberal world, don't they cancel each other out?

[b4its2late]

Cut fraud AND cut taxes........