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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by margalabargala on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:07AM (#45080289)
Shouldn't that be roughly constant across the year though? We don't need to trust the numbers to be exact, to observe a precipitous drop.
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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by RhysU on Sunday August 31, 2025 @08:35AM (#45082710)
Should fraud rates in public taxpayer-funded systems stay constant or go down over time, assuming no new fraud type is invented?
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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by margalabargala on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:20PM (#45087204)
Depends what if anything is being done to combat it.

One of the following is true:

- The numbers somewhat-accurately reflect the trend of employment

- Fraud levels were reduced 66x in one year

If it was the second one, that's a sufficiently massive reduction that news stories would be written about it. There would be stories about this great victory over fraud.

A quick search showed no particular anti-fraud measures or claims of effectiveness unique to that time period.

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