To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.
1) No Washington program was ever done efficiently, effectively and resolved the original problem. And that heinous tradition continues to this day as more taxpayer wealth gets wasted:
- Vinah Oudomsine of Dublin, Georgia, was lucky enough to receive an “economic disaster loan” as a result of the covid pandemic.
- The loan was part of a program to help business owners meet expenses during the pandemic’s darker days.
- But even though he lied on his loan application, the Federal government awarded him $57,000 for his business.
- But he ended up spending the entire amount of taxpayer generosity on a single, ultra valuable…. wait for it…. Pokemon card.
- His application claimed he started his business in 2018, now had annual revenues of $235,000 and had ten employees.
- And adding insult to injury, he also got a bogus loan from the Small Business Administration for $85,000.
- He faces up to twenty years in prison for his actions.
2) Turns out that not only do ordinary citizens steal money but possibly government officials do also:
- Seth Andrew was a senior advisor in the Obama administration in the Technology Office of Education.
- He recently was arrested on three counts of Federal financial fraud.
- His arrest has caused him to lose positions in the Democracy Builders Fund and the Degrees of Freedom program.
- According to a news report: “Seth Andrew, 42, allegedly transferred funds from the Democracy Prep Public Schools reserve bank accounts in order to inflate his account balance and to qualify for a special mortgage deduction on his $2.4 million apartments, authorities said.”
- The amount of the alleged fraud is $218,005.
- After his arrest, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss issued a statement: “As alleged, Seth Andrew abused his position as a founder of a charter school network to steal from the very same schools he helped create. Andrew is not only alleged to have stolen the schools’ money but also to have used the stolen funds to obtain a savings on a mortgage for a multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment. Thanks to the FBI’s diligent work, Andrew now faces federal charges for his alleged scheme.”
- Andrew is married to Lana Zak, a high powered CBS News personality so it was not like he was homeless and broke, his wife is probably making a handsome sum in her position with CBS so his alleged actions are nothing more than pure greed.
3) A little while ago we discussed a research report that showed in many states, mostly democratic/liberal states, over their lifetimes residents of those states spent upwards of 50% of their wages and income in taxes. That is an amazing number: almost half of what they earn from working their jobs and careers goes to government bureaucrats and politicians who most often spend those tax dollars on ineffective and inefficient government programs.
These taxes cover a wide range of areas: property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, gasoline taxes, utility taxes, sewer taxes, water taxes, motor vehicle fees and taxes, and many, many more. And just when you thought that government entities could not possibly come up with another way to rob us of our wealth, the city of San Diego comes up with a new tax:
- The city government of San Diego will soon be considering a tax on every mile that a resident drives.
- The preliminary estimate is that this “mileage” tax would be $.04 a mile.
- Thus, ordinary working people, truck drivers, sales people, taxi drivers, lawn businesses, pool businesses, etc. would now have to pay for the privilege of doing their jobs.
- An opponent of the tax, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, said this tax was meant to “force everyone onto trolleys and buses” by pricing people out of their cars: “This proposal should never see the light of day. San Diegans already pay some of the highest prices to drive in the country. From the current gas taxes to a vehicle registration tax, San Diegans feel the effects in their wallets every day."
- This tax is supposed to help pay for the local government's plan to build a 200 mile, $43 billion regional railroad network.
The state of California recently tried to build a high speed rail line along the coast and failed miserably, after wasting tens of millions of dollars on the failed project. The Big Dig transportation project in Boston years ago was supposed to cost a few billion dollars and ended up costing over $20 billion.
Thus, what usually happens with today’s politicians and government bureaucrats, a huge transportation project gets started, falls behind budget and schedule and is eventually shut down after much wasted tax dollars. Or so much investment is already made even though the costs are going through the roof that the project is completed anyway, way above budget and usually short of expectations.
And the bigger issue here is how is this mileage tax going to be enforced? Is everyone’s car going to be fitted with a mileage tabulator and if so, who pays for that? Once you have a tracking device in a citizen’s car, you will know where and when that citizen was at all times, surely an Orwellian “1984” scenario. More taxes, less freedom, a typical American politician scheme.
Stealing from the government by citizens, stealing from schools by a former government bureaucrat, and stealing from citizens via a mileage tax, lots of stealing going on as a result of an incompetent and overreaching political class.
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