red states rule
02-06-2013, 04:36 PM
You cannot make this stuff up when it comes to tax and spend liberals
As with the Obama administration - why the hell should anyone have to pay one more penny in taxes?
Every time government leaders come back to taxpayers for more money, they are saying to you, “As we see it, this government is running like a perfectly well-oiled machine, and there is nowhere possible we could imagine extracting this money except from you.”
In Massachusetts, the juxtaposition of Gov. Deval Patrick’s requests for a grab bag of tax and fee hikes (http://www.debatepolicy.com/archives/2013/01/18/gov-patrick-lets-hike-income-taxes-drop-sales-taxes-in-ma/) with last week’s revelation of millions in state and federal welfare waste and fraud has Massachusetts residents noticing just how little respect Patrick has for their wallets. I would have thought this realization came with the address, but it’s healthy nonetheless.
The state’s welfare chief Daniel Curley was forced to resign last week after a report found his department had been wasting millions in federal and state taxpayer funds: (http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/welfare_boss_resigns_wake_report)
The state’s embattled welfare chief was forced to step down yesterday in the wake of a shocking internal report that found that a staggering 47,000 families receiving taxpayer-funded benefits are unaccounted for — and nearly $30 million in food stamp money went to recipients who were not eligible.
The shocking report, released to the Herald last night, found that the Department of Transitional Assistance has lost track of 47,087 households on welfare — or one out of 10 of the total 478,000 who received DTA mailings.
The welfare department also admitted that it overpaid federal food stamp recipients by a whopping $27.8 million since 2010.
And, a possible $25 million a year lost in state taxpayer funds: (http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/welfare_errors_could_cost_mass.html)
A state watchdog agency’s study of information submitted to the state by welfare recipients found errors and eligibility concerns with an average annual cost to taxpayers of about $25 million per year.
According to Inspector General Glenn Cunha’s report, dated on Wednesday and posted on his website but not widely released, investigators discovered potential eligibility concerns that could result in the termination of benefits in about 9 percent of the households receiving benefits under the program known as Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children and designed to provide assistance to the poorest residents of Massachusetts.
In mid-January state Auditor Suzanne M. Bump said examiners with the office’s Bureau of Special Investigations found evidence of $1,334,019 in fraudulently obtained public assistance benefits and services.
Bump said examiners completed 1,769 investigations in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 (July through September), identifying 246 people defrauding the state out of food stamps, health care benefits, public housing or cash assistanc
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/06/massachusetts-wants-to-hike-taxes-on-heels-of-30-million-welfare-fraud-finds-citizens-unenthusiastic/
As with the Obama administration - why the hell should anyone have to pay one more penny in taxes?
Every time government leaders come back to taxpayers for more money, they are saying to you, “As we see it, this government is running like a perfectly well-oiled machine, and there is nowhere possible we could imagine extracting this money except from you.”
In Massachusetts, the juxtaposition of Gov. Deval Patrick’s requests for a grab bag of tax and fee hikes (http://www.debatepolicy.com/archives/2013/01/18/gov-patrick-lets-hike-income-taxes-drop-sales-taxes-in-ma/) with last week’s revelation of millions in state and federal welfare waste and fraud has Massachusetts residents noticing just how little respect Patrick has for their wallets. I would have thought this realization came with the address, but it’s healthy nonetheless.
The state’s welfare chief Daniel Curley was forced to resign last week after a report found his department had been wasting millions in federal and state taxpayer funds: (http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/welfare_boss_resigns_wake_report)
The state’s embattled welfare chief was forced to step down yesterday in the wake of a shocking internal report that found that a staggering 47,000 families receiving taxpayer-funded benefits are unaccounted for — and nearly $30 million in food stamp money went to recipients who were not eligible.
The shocking report, released to the Herald last night, found that the Department of Transitional Assistance has lost track of 47,087 households on welfare — or one out of 10 of the total 478,000 who received DTA mailings.
The welfare department also admitted that it overpaid federal food stamp recipients by a whopping $27.8 million since 2010.
And, a possible $25 million a year lost in state taxpayer funds: (http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/welfare_errors_could_cost_mass.html)
A state watchdog agency’s study of information submitted to the state by welfare recipients found errors and eligibility concerns with an average annual cost to taxpayers of about $25 million per year.
According to Inspector General Glenn Cunha’s report, dated on Wednesday and posted on his website but not widely released, investigators discovered potential eligibility concerns that could result in the termination of benefits in about 9 percent of the households receiving benefits under the program known as Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children and designed to provide assistance to the poorest residents of Massachusetts.
In mid-January state Auditor Suzanne M. Bump said examiners with the office’s Bureau of Special Investigations found evidence of $1,334,019 in fraudulently obtained public assistance benefits and services.
Bump said examiners completed 1,769 investigations in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 (July through September), identifying 246 people defrauding the state out of food stamps, health care benefits, public housing or cash assistanc
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/06/massachusetts-wants-to-hike-taxes-on-heels-of-30-million-welfare-fraud-finds-citizens-unenthusiastic/