$36 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims this year, divided by 160 million Americans who will receive $600 in secondary stimulus, would be an additional $200 to each of them.
Plus $25 extra each for bribes / foreign aid / kickbacks
That's what my grandpappy would say, if he were still around. He was a tough old no-nonsense kind of fella. Fought in WWI and during the Philippines Insurrection.
When a group insists on cheating, then they forfeit the benefits of being in the system. That's the social contract we share in civil self-determined representative government. You play by the rules, you get the benefits that come with the system. You also agree to accept the consequences when you break the rules.
We need to take them to the woodshed. Otherwise we're just rewarding and tolerating bad behaviors.
