I’m believing that more than half of money spent by government is fraud, and half of what is left is unnecessary crap. A million bucks for 30 square feet of sidewalk? For climate change?
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Don Curton · July 10, 2026 at 7:01 am
In the corporate world, that’s a bargain. Yeah, I suspect a large amount of fraud goes on, but I can totally see $1 million for a little bit of sidewalk. During my engineering days, stuff that could have been done for maybe $100k routinely ended up costing well over a million simply because every dollar spent had to go thru multiple layers of review, approval, re-review, re-engineering, approval after any engineering changes, legal review, and finally a review of the review process. Also, with govt, there’s zero accountability so that too costs money.
Divemedic · July 10, 2026 at 8:53 am
Thats why taxes need to be restricted. They dont care what it costs because they just raise taxes. If taxes can’t be raised, you live within your means.
Don Curton · July 11, 2026 at 6:38 am
Totally agree – my philosophy on taxes is that we need to cut, then cut some more, then cut again in order to “starve the beast”. The govt should have barely enough money to maintain an army, build our roads, and pretty much nothing else.
SiG · July 10, 2026 at 9:28 am
It becomes more evident every day that biggest source of the federal deficit is corruption and funneling tax money to stuff like this. Seems like there’s another story every day.
Without fraud like this, I bet we’d be running budget surpluses.
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