"In scam, prisoners cash in on tax break" by Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press | June 24, 2010
WASHINGTON — Living in prison didn’t stop nearly 1,300 inmates from cashing in on a popular tax break for first-time homebuyers, a government investigator reported yesterday. Their take: more than $9 million....
And you want these guys running and regulating health care?
The report blemishes an otherwise popular tax break that was sweetened once by President Obama’s economic recovery package and again when Congress extended it into the spring. The National Association of Realtors says the tax credit has generated 1 million new home sales that wouldn’t have happened otherwise....
Yeah, to the benefit of the crooks on the outside: banks
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And it gets worse, America:
"President signs law to end bad payments
WASHINGTON — President Obama signed legislation yesterday intended to slash by $50 billion the taxpayer money improperly paid to dead people, fugitives, and those in jail who shouldn’t be getting benefits.
But that goal, if achieved, would not even halve the $110 billion made in such payments last year....
Yeah, that's BILLION with a B, America.
