Name: How The U.S. Wastes Tax Money
Uploaded: 2023-04-18T18:17:40.000Z
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At least $247 billion of taxpayer money was wasted

government to the customers, the American

people. And so no one should be surprised that the

government has horrible customer service, that it

wastes resources, that it steals your resources, that

it does stupid and wasteful things from them.

Meanwhile, 54% of Americans today believe their federal

Yet the United States is one of the least taxed among

Tax revenue in America accounts for a little more

than a quarter of the country's GDP, compared to

an average of 34.11% among developed countries.

Particularly compared to other Western European

democracies where people have the same standard of

living as we do, our taxes are really relatively low.

It's a matter of how people feel about it and the value

that they feel they're getting for the taxes that

Only about 20%, really more like 18% or so, of

government spending is actually on what most people

In the private sector, if somebody is doing something,

they see what they're trying to do or sell and

then determine how to do it and then how much it will

cost. In the federal government, everything is:

If that doesn't work, go spend more money.

So why do taxes feel so high in the United States?

Billions of taxpayer dollars go wasted every

year. Take improper payments, for example, which

These refer to payments that were made incorrectly

Over the last two decades, the US government has lost

An improper payment can be both an overpayment and an

fraudulent, going to the wrong person, going to

someone who is ineligible, going literally to someone

You ask most people, how much money do you lose in a

day, a month, a year or something like that?

I know what I'm spending my money on, right?

Maybe on occasion somebody drops a dollar bill.

But the government has just lost, as if you dropped on

the sidewalk, trillions and trillions of dollars over

the last few decades. And that is money that was

stolen from hardworking Americans to just simply get

Oversight reports from nonprofits and senators like

Rand Paul claim that billions of dollars are

being wasted every year, f rom spending $1.7 billion

maintaining empty government buildings to

accidentally investing $28 million on forest camouflage

uniforms to be used in the deserts of Afghanistan.

The Government Accountability Office every

year issues a report on duplicative and overlapping

programs, and every year they find more of these

programs. For example, everyone should be connected

to broadband, at least everybody who wants to be

connected. Yet in the federal government, the

Government Accountability Office found 133 broadband

Just one example of the duplication and overlap

among many programs throughout the federal

government. And the federal government spent $42 billion

over a three year period and people are still not

Experts say the problem mainly stems from the way

cost. In the federal government, everything is go

spend the money. If that doesn't work, go spend more

The way that our systems work is that we didn't

The way that our programs are done is it's one

Somebody got into office and said, I want to have a

So none of these are really designed to work with each

other. None of them are designed to respect each

Federal spending has risen over 20% since 2019,

The federal government reported $1.38 trillion in

That same year, the national debt hit almost $31

As the government spends, as it runs up a deficit, a

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