• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    Supporting the food supply and keeping jobs during COVID are both great examples where the government should step in. The problem is the hypocrisy, when people agree only when it benefits them, only when they can be “takers”.

    Even the lack of safety features on the Payback Protection Program were good things - the money got out where it was needed much quicker.

    The emergency is past so now we have the opportunity to go back and look for fraudulent use. We have time for the legal system to work. This is the money we need to “claw back”. This is the fraud we need to hunt down. And it’s not enough to just return the money for a free five year loan

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      2 days ago

      fuck that, the government already requires taxes without consent. It should not be allowed to retroactively declare uses of money fraudulent.

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        As far as I remember a key feature of that program was to say what is was for but then to intentionally not implement bureaucracy to ensure that. If it was always fraud but getting the money out fast was a priority, then yes it’s very much a good thing to go back and rain justice down on cheaters

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        2 days ago

        Did the government just make it rain money on people unprompted or did people fill in forms saying they needed it?