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Do you think that we currently do tolerate fraud? Or have we built a system so complex that fraud is easy to do and difficult to spot?
I think during COVID everyone became a monkeybrained virtue-signaler when it came to government programs. Whether that's "tolerating" fraud is up to you to decide, but it certainly enabled it.
By tolerating, I suppose I mean that elected officials probably have a good idea what percent of the money they take from us goes to ends other than the stated purpose, but that they accept it because they think it's necessary or they benefit from it.
if that's your definition of tolerating then I would imagine that yes it is tolerated by the political leaders
Everyone knows there is fraud and it's a matter of how much you want to do about it
that's how it looks from my vantage point too
and my wife also works closely with disability services and programs. thus, we see how easy it is to defraud the system
I think there's some real truth to it.
I can offer two takes on this that offer a slightly more positive / less sky-is-falling take.
That being said, I absolutely don't think we should tolerate fraud and I think fraud should be severely prosecuted. I'm more just making the point that spending funds on health and social assistance isn't necessarily such a bad thing.