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Re:How to brazenly steal $100B from Medicare and Medicaid by lostmsu on Thursday March 09, 2023 @12:22PM (#35083771)
> I would expect a certain group of politicians to jump on it

Is discourse here so bad the Republican party can't be named?

Re:How to brazenly steal $100B from Medicare and Medicaid by kevingadd on Thursday March 09, 2023 @12:30PM (#35083877)
With how aggressively they de -fang the IRS so it can't enforce white collar crime, it doesn't seem a given that they would want to spend tax dollars investigating and prosecuting this kind of white collar crime. They're more likely to just get rid of Medicare to cut costs.
Re:How to brazenly steal $100B from Medicare and Medicaid by WalterBright on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:13PM (#35084584)
As economist C Northcote Parkinson wrote, once taxes become high enough tax evasion inevitably becomes the national sport.