The Great American Welfare Fraud

The Republicans got this one right. The giant welfare fraud in Minnesota is astound­ing even by third-world stan­dards. As the Wall Street Journal opined, the Land of 10,000 Lakes probably has more fraud schemes than lakes now, and the White House wasn’t exag­gerating that it cost taxpayers more than $1 billion. One entity, for example, set up shell companies and submitted fake invoices claiming to feed children in the pandemic. The outfit complained of racial discrimination when cornered but the cash flow didn’t stop. The money was spent on luxury cars and real estate across continents.

 In another instance, eight indi­viduals laundered millions of Medicaid dollars, pretending to shelter recovering addicts. One young woman paid kick­backs to parents to enrol their non-autistic kids in her non-existent behavioural therapy classes to pocket taxpayer money. The list is seemingly endless. But it goes to show what happens when a welfare state runs out of control. Min­nesota’s governor being Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ run­ning mate last year, the GOP could still make mincemeat of Democratic socialism in the midterms if they argued their case properly. Democrats, of course, are looking the other way because entitlement to dole is their inviolate mantra.