https://freerepublic.com/tag/250billion/ en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:16:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4399035/posts With estimates of the annual toll on taxpayers for welfare fraud now estimated to exceed $250 billion, an outraged President Trump is demanding that "Congress enact a law mandating prison sentences for individuals who are stealing this money from hard working Americans. I think if you steal from the American people, you should go to prison and for a long period of time. And the more you steal, the longer you'll stay in that prison." "In addition, if a state or local politician knows about fraud and has the ability to stop it, but does nothing about it, they should... Semi-News/Semi-Satire https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4399035/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:16:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498615/posts In an exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS Editor Terence Jeffrey this week, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R.) outlined the combined state-and-federal effort to rebuild the vast area in his state damaged by Hurricane Katrina, saying his government would not use the disaster “as a way to gouge the taxpayers.” Barbour said he hoped the federal government would pay 90% of the tab for repairing public infrastructure in Mississippi, but estimated the total federal costs for relief, recovery and rebuilding in his state would be under $50 billion and might not be much more than $30 billion. The $250 billion aid... Human Events Online https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498615/posts#comment Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:40:10 GMT