Monday, June 27, 2022

The Inconvenient Truth About COVID-19 Relief Scandals

Much of the COVID-19 spending that doesn’t qualify as wasteful or fraudulent was nonetheless misspent

  • The pandemic caused the government to pump the nation full of as much money as possible, as fast as possible
  • Nearly everyone-married, unmarried, employed, unemployed, through businesses small and large-got cash through the $2 trillion CARES Act
  • It's now clear that an enormous amount of the eventual $5 trillion was spent "improperly," and that some was downright fraudulent
  • At least $163 billion of the $873 billion in unemployment insurance benefits was spent in error, and little of this sum was recovered
  • A significant share of the money was claimed by organized fraudsters and scammers

The real scam is the entire process that starts on Capitol Hill

  • Of course there was some fraud, but the malfeasance happened only because the programs were created in the first place and designed to go to everyone regardless of need
  • This reckless “design” is the true scandal

 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/06/26/the-inconvenient-truth-about-covid-19-relief-scandals/ 

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