America needs a qualitatively new economic strategy – one that will elevate large segments of our population up the scales of financial security, so they do not need so many of these social programs to survive…

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The GAO Shows That Data Matching Can Reduce Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

Source: https://www.cdiaonline.org/data-delivered-for-good/2021/12/20/the-gao-shows-that-data-matching-can-reduce-waste-fraud-and-abuse/

Excerpts:

In 2021, the GAO conducted a review of several programs that assist low-income individuals and concluded, among other things, that better data matching can prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, and can better direct funds to people that really need it. 

In a report, the GAO looked at Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Housing Choice Vouchers, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Medicaid (Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) eligible), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).  All of these programs have income eligibility requirements.

The amount of improper payments made for a number of federal assistance programs is staggering.  In 2019, improper payments for four programs was around $90b: Medicaid ($57.4b), the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) ($17.4b), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) ($5.5b), and SNAP ($4b).

For energy assistance programs, the GAO added that “[b]ased on [its] review of state plans, 13 agencies administering LIHEAP reported using no electronic data to verify beneficiaries’ income, verifying income in other ways, such as checking beneficiaries’ documents.”  The report added that while the U.S. “Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has encouraged LIHEAP agencies to use electronic data to improve program integrity, [it] has not taken recent steps to share information that could facilitate its use. HHS officials said that doing so could help state agencies’ verification efforts.

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The Leviticus 25 Plan will eliminate massive amounts of personal and household debt for working, tax-paying Americans – and grant millions of American families liquidity benefits that will allow them to directly allocate resources that best suit their needs – particularly in the realm of health care.

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Reducing the raw numbers of people enrolled in these programs will also serve to reduce the scope of fraud, waste, and abuse.

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“He who will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.” – Sir Francis Bacon

Navient is a Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE), formerly known as Sallie Mae, which effectively took over the student loan market in 2010. It is now losing a ‘boat-load’ of money, and taxpayers are ‘on the hook’ for billions.

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WSJ: Navient, the Student Loan Punching Bag

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, Jan 14, 2022 – Excerpts:

The Democrats’ government student loan takeover in 2010 is one of the great policy fiascoes of the age. But politicians can never admit it, so instead they’re kicking Navient, the student loan servicer.

Navient, formerly Sallie Mae, on Thursday agreed to settle 39 state Attorneys General lawsuits by cancelling $1.7 billion in defaulted debt. It will also make $260 payments to 350,000 federal student loan borrowers who were allegedly wrongly placed in long-term forbearance.

The State AGs accused Navient of “predatory lending” for making private loans to lower-income borrowers who attended for-profit schools, and for charging higher interest rates due to their higher credit risk. Heaven forbid a private lender, unlike the feds, try to avoid losing money.

Lower-income students couldn’t pay tuition with federal aid alone, so Navient filled the gap. For-profits also must derive at least 10% of their revenues from sources other than federal aid. So Navient indirectly helped those schools stay in business—and compete with community colleges. That’s another Navient political sin.

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The AGs accused Navient of wrongly placing borrowers in forbearance, which lets them defer payments while continuing to accrue interest. Borrowers enrolled in loan forgiveness plans also accrue interest because they often don’t pay enough to reduce their balance. This is a big reason the federal student loan balance sheet has doubled over the last decade to $1.6 trillion.

Navient denies wrongdoing and continues to fight similar legal charges filed by Obama Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray in early 2017. But it says settling the AG lawsuits was less expensive than continuing to fight. In September it also sought to end its government servicing contract because it was more hassle than it is worth.

But get this—Mr. Cordray, now chief operating officer of the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office, requested that Navient renew the contract through 2023. Democrats need to keep around a punching bag as the government student loan debacle grows.

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Note – “The average student loan debt for recent college graduates is nearly $30,000,” according to U.S News data, Sept. 14, 2021.

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The Plan would put students back in control of their college financing – and allow the government to dramatically shrink its student loan footprint.

It would facilitate a free market environment for higher education financing and provide It would provide direct liquidity extensions to reduce/eliminate loan balances.

It would provide liquidity for loan recipients of non-government financing – and help them also reduce/eliminate debt.

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Massive government spending initiatives – and the law of unintended consequences…

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Real Wages Plummet As Inflation Hits The US Recovery

ZeroHedge, Jan 10, 2022 | Authored by Daniel Lacalle, – Excerpt:

The United States December jobs report shows that the labor market remains weak.

The headline 3.9% unemployment rate looks positive, but job creation fell significantly below consensus, at 199,000 in December versus a consensus estimate of 450,000.

The weak jobs figure should be viewed in the context of the largest stimulus plan in recent history. With massive monetary and fiscal support and a government deficit of $2.77 trillion, the second highest on record, job creation falls significantly short of previous recoveries and the employment situation is significantly worse than it was in 2019.

The most alarming datapoint is that real wages are plummeting. Average hourly earnings have risen 4.7% in 2021, but inflation is 6.8%, sending real wages to negative territory and the worst reading since 2011.

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“Government is not the answer,” as Pres. Ronald Reagan once said. “Government is the problem.”

Government, over the long haul, has an individualizing characteristic of complicating social issues and making problems worse.

It is high time to decentralize the system – and allow U.S. citizens to directly allocate resources, on their own behalf, in ways that best serve their personal needs and wishes, and free them from the tentacles of government control over their daily lives.

It is time to decentralize the system in a way that will eliminate massive amounts of ground-level debt in America, generate significant government budget surpluses and reduce long-term debt, and restore economic liberty for all Americans.

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Wall Street Journal: Dear Mr. and Ms. Taxpayer

December 17, 2021 09:14 AM

Dear Mr. and Ms. Taxpayer:

In January, Democrats plan to bring back the so-called Build Back Better Bill. If your Congressman, your Senator vote for it, that vote says everything you need to know about who she/he represents. And it is not you.

Here is what your Congressmen and Senators say the bill costs: $1,750,000,000,000.

However, the permanent cost—as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office—to fund this pork-filled so-called Build Back Better Bill is up to $4,730,000,000,000.

So much for the president’s claim that this bill is “free” or “costs nothing.” Do the politicians really think we are that stupid?

Try to even imagine what $1 trillion—$1,000,000,000,000—is. We all know what a day is, what a year is. Instead of dollars, let’s think in terms of trillions of days. How many years are one trillion days?

2.7 billion years. 2,700,000,000. That is a lot of lifetimes!

If your trillion-touting Congressman and Senator vote for this bill, here is how they want to spend your present and future tax dollars.

This bill gives tax breaks to reporters, the media, unions, and trial attorneys. The bill-voting Congressman and Senators, obviously, believe it is more important to give tax breaks to reporters, the media, unions, trial attorneys than to plumbers, truck drivers, etc.—than to you, than to cut your tax dollars. This is a clear statement of who they really represent. And Mr. and Ms. Taxpayer Voter—it is not you.

If your Congressman, if your Senator vote for this bill, they have voted to give rich taxpayers in states like California, Illinois, and New York a big tax break. Again, not you.

If your Congressman, if your Senator vote for this bill, they are targeting small businesses. The bill increasing the occupational safety penalties (this is hard to believe) 10 times to $700,000 per violation. $700,000? It would break many businesses. If you, Mr. and Ms. Small Business Owner, do not follow the vaccine regulations you’re bankrupt.

Ronald Reagan stated, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

This bill brings those terrifying words into reality. With this bill, your Congressman, your Senator voted to give the EPA $7 billion to employ a “climate corps.” Really? $7,000,000,000. That’s enough to fund an army of climate corps cops. If this bill passes, be prepared. That $7 billion climate corps army has to have something to do. The local climate cop will be on your doorstep surveying your carbon footprint.

Items as irresponsible as the above fill every page of this 2,466-page bill. All with lots of zeros. 2,466 pages… when is the last time you read 10 books?

Think of the price pain you are already feeling at the gas pump, in the grocery store. If this bill passes, that price pain will become more painful. Wait until you receive your heating bill this winter. This bill will accelerate the inflation price pain for a long time.

Your vote counts. Call, e-mail your Congressman. Call, e-mail your Senator. Ask why they voted for the bill. Will they vote for the bill? Ask them if they read this 2,466-page, 10-book bill. In all likelihood, few, if any, Congressmen or Senators read this bill, especially those who voted for the bill or will vote for it. To find your Congressman’s or Senator’s phone number and e-mail address, go to www.house.gov or www.senate.gov.

If your Congressman, your Senator vote for this bill, that vote says everything you need to know about whether they represent you. About whether they are qualified to remain in office. About whether you should ever vote for them again.

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The six major Wall Street Banks highlighted below received highly preferential ‘targeted’ liquidity flows from the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve over the past two decades, while at the same time engaging in a long list of criminal activities and lawless practices, including:

• money laundering;
• bribery;
• massive fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities;
• credit card and checking account abuses;
• foreclosure and debt collection violations;
• breaches of fiduciary duty;
• antitrust violations;
• market manipulation;
• enabling Ponzi schemes; and
• even violations of election law.

The Special Report below further highlights these details. The $195 billion in sanctions that were levied against these six megabanks were a mere ‘slap on the wrist’ in comparison to the TARP funding, Federal Reserve ‘Secret Liquidity Lifelines’ funding, and access to the Fed’s discount window that they received.  Source: bettermarkets.org

WALL STREET’S RAP SHEET
Illegal Activity at the Nation’s Six Largest Megabanks Has Continued
Since the 2008 Crash

Accessed from:  https://www.bettermarkets.org/sites/default/files/documents/Details_Report_Wall_Street%27s_Six_Biggest_Bailed-Out_Banks_2021.pdf

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Washington Republicans do not have a counter-plan.

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WSJ: The Real Biden Bill: At Least $4.6 Trillion    

Program by program, here’s how Democrats disguise the real cost of their entitlement blowout.

By The Wall Street Journal Editorial Staff

Updated Nov. 18, 2021 9:50 pm ET   /  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-biden-bill-at-least-4-6-trillion-congressional-budget-office-score-congress-democrats-11637275848

The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday released its “official” cost estimates for the House tax and entitlement bill, but don’t believe it. The CBO gnomes aren’t lying about a 10-year deficit estimate of $367 billion. They’re obliged to score the bill under rules that Democrats have rigged with multiple tricks that disguise the real cost by trillions of dollars.

Democrats phase out the biggest programs in the bill while paying for them with 10 years of tax increases. They phase-in other programs and off-load costs to the states. The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates the House bill would cost nearly $4.6 trillion over 10 years if temporary provisions are made permanent, as most will be.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) pegs the cost at $4.9 trillion if temporary tax credits and programs are made permanent through 2031. This would add $1.5 trillion to deficits over the next five years without additional tax offsets. Let’s take a tour of this budget deception.

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• Enhanced child allowances ($3,600 for children under age 6 and $3,000 up to age 17). This is the bill’s most expensive provision at about $130 billion a year, which is why Democrats limit it to one year. Does anyone doubt they’ll extend it in the future?

They may get help from Republicans, who won’t want to be attacked for raising taxes on families. CRFB says making the allowances permanent would cost $1.13 trillion. Based on current law, it would cost $1.5 trillion since the $2,000 tax credit from the 2017 GOP tax reform is set to drop back to $1,000 after 2025. So that’s nearly $1.4 trillion in hidden costs alone.

• Earned income tax credit expansion. The bill nearly triples the maximum EITC value for childless adults—but only for one year. Its $15 billion annual cost would be $135 billion if extended over the decade. The kicker: Individuals can qualify based on their previous year’s earnings, so they technically don’t have to work to get it.

• ObamaCare premium subsidies. Democrats in March extended eligibility to Americans making more than 400% of the poverty line and capped their premium payments for benchmark plans at 8.5% of income. Subsidies for lower earners were also increased so people making 150% of the poverty line don’t have to pay a penny toward their premiums, compared to 4.1% before the change.

These sweetened subsidies are set to expire after next year, but the bill extends them through 2025 while also allowing lower-income adults in states that opted out of the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion to qualify. CRFB says these subsidies will cost $530 billion if they are made permanent.

• A new child-care entitlement. Households making up to 250% of their state’s median income would qualify for child-care vouchers, and their payments would be capped at 7% of income—less for lower earners. The bill appropriates about $100 billion through 2024 to states and “such sums as may be necessary” from 2025 to 2027.

Spending on this entitlement like all others can be expected to increase on autopilot, especially as providers raise prices to capture more subsidies. States will have to pick up 5% of the cost from 2025 to 2027, which somewhat reduces federal spending but could lead to state tax hikes down the road.

• Universal pre-K. The bill appropriates about $18 billion to states for universal pre-K through 2024 and then “such sums as may be necessary” through 2027. States would be on the hook for about 5% of the cost starting in 2025 and 37% in 2027.

The pre-K and child care entitlements are estimated to cost only $380 billion because they phase in gradually and expire after six years. But there’s zero chance they will expire in 2027. Once the middle-class gets hooked, the entitlements will be impossible to repeal. CRFB estimates the two programs would cost $800 billion if made permanent.

• The current $10,000 limit on the state-and-local tax (SALT) deduction increases to $80,000 through 2030. In 2031 it would return to $10,000. Penn Wharton says this gimmick would lead to $65 billion in additional tax revenue through 2031 though it would cost about $300 billion through 2025. Confused?

Under current law, the $10,000 SALT cap is set to expire in 2025 with most of the 2017 GOP tax cuts. So raising the cap to $80,000 would add to the deficit through 2025 but subtract from it through 2031. This gimmick will make it harder to extend the other expiring provisions of the 2017 tax reform, such as bonus depreciation for business. CRFB says that if the 2017 tax reforms are extended separately, any savings on paper would be erased and replaced with an additional $340 billion in costs.

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In sum, the House bill will cost $2 trillion to $3 trillion more than CBO is estimating because Democrats have camouflaged the costs. Penn Wharton estimates the bill’s tax increases and other revenue will yield about $1.8 trillion, but this doesn’t account for how the tax hikes will change the incentives to work and invest.

Keep in mind that CBO this summer projected that annual deficits will already exceed $1 trillion on average through 2030, causing U.S. debt to swell by $12.8 trillion—and that’s before the infrastructure bill or this House bill. When the spending all kicks in, and the rich are all taxed out, the middle class will be hit with a huge tax increase. This is the most dishonest spending bill in American history.

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Household Net Worth Hits Record $142 Trillion, Up $31 Trillion Since COVID, But There Is A Catch…

“The biggest wealth redistribution in history continues..”. 

ZeroHedge, Sep 23, 2021 – Excerpts:

Indeed, the latest data as of Q1 shows that the top 1% accounts for over $41.5 trillion of total household net worth, with the number rising to over $90 trillion for just the top 10%. Meanwhile, the bottom half of the US population has virtually no assets at all. On a percentage basis, just the Top 1% now own a record 32.1% share of total US net worth, or $45.6 trillion. In other words, the richest Americans have never owned a greater share of US household income than they do, largely thanks to the Fed. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% own just 2% of all net worth, or a paltry $2.8 trillion. They do own most of the debt though…

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And the saddest chart of all: the wealth of the bottom 50% is virtually unchanged since 2006, while the net worth of the Top 1% has risen by 132% from $17.9 trillion to $41.5 trillion.

Bottom line: the data underscore how the government’s fiscal scramble to speed up the “economic recovery” paired with the Fed’s continued ultra easy monetary policy have helped to protect and grow the wealth of the richest Americans: those who own assets, and who have seen their net worth hit an all time high… unlike the bottom 50% of Americans who mostly “own” debt. 

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The Fed’s massive liquidity transfusions into the Wall Street financial sector during the great financial crisis (2007-2010) ‘lined the pockets’ and… ‘lathered up’ the top officers and Board of Director members of Wall Street’s financial sector, including: Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, State Street, Wells Fargo, AIG, Merrill Lynch, along with multi-national foreign banking interests like Deutsche Bank, UBS AG, BNP Paribas, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Credit Suisse, and numerous others.

The average working class American received ‘crumbs’ during the big scramble to rescue the financial system.

Again, “… the wealth of the bottom 50% is virtually unchanged since 2006, while the net worth of the Top 1% has risen by 132% from $17.9 trillion to $41.5 trillion.”

It is time to ‘re-balance’ the system and grant the same opportunity for direct liquidity extensions to U.S. citizens that was so generously provided by the Fed to Wall Street’s financial sector over a decade ago.

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2015 Fraser Institute study highlights the vital benefits of economic freedom.

New study: Economic freedom makes you happier than age, employment, income     

By Jason Russell – Wall Street Examiner, Aug 5, 2015 – Excerpts:

Government size, property rights and trade are among factors used to determine a country’s economic freedom.

Countries with more economic freedom have happier people, according to a study published Tuesday by the Fraser Institute.

Economic freedom determines how much control someone feels they have over their life, which can affect happiness levels.

The happiness benefit is seen even when other factors that might increase happiness and also are prevalent in economically-free countries are held equal. These include higher levels of health, income, trust and employment. Economic freedom actually makes people happier than their income, age, political system or job status, the study says.

“Clearly, living in an economically free society has an important impact on the average citizen,” said Fred McMahon, the Fraser Institute’s Research Chair in Economic Freedom. “Past research concluded that economic freedom spurs prosperity, income, employment and better public institutions.”

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Governments love to ‘grow’ their social welfare entitlement programs. Europe is a prime example, and America is hot on their tail…

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WSJ: The Entitlements of U.S. Decline

Biden says his plans will make America great again. Ask Europe how that has turned out.

Oct 6, 2021 |  Excerpts:

… Europe’s little-discussed secret is that its cradle-to-grave welfare states are financed by the middle class via value-added and payroll taxes. The combined employer-employee social security tax rate is 36% in Spain, 40% in Italy and 65% in France. Value-added taxes in most European economies are around 20%. There simply aren’t enough rich to finance their entitlements.

Democrats in Washington know this, which is why they are resorting to budget gimmicks to disguise $5 trillion in spending into the 10-year budget window. They plan to pay for a few years of spending with 10 years of tax increases on businesses and affluent individuals, but this still only gets them $2.1 trillion in estimated new revenue.

Europe’s vast entitlements also mean less money for security and the military. Only nine or so European countries meet their NATO pledge to spend 2% or more of GDP on defense, and only Greece spends more than 3% as the U.S. does. Germany spends a paltry 1.56%.

The U.S. was able to defeat the Soviet empire in the 1980s because a booming economy spun off enough revenue to rebuild the military. Mr. Biden is proposing to shrink defense in real terms, and his welfare-spending wedge will grow rapidly. There will be no Reagan-like military buildup as China rises.

The irony is that some European governments have tried to reform their tax and welfare systems to become more competitive. Germany and Sweden over two decades reformed their welfare and labor policies. Their labor participation and GDP growth have exceeded the rest of Europe’s. Germany’s labor participation rose to 61.3% in 2019 from 58.1% in 2000.

During the 1970s and 80s, Sweden’s tax burden rose to the world’s highest as its welfare system became much more generous. The result: Swedes’ after-tax real incomes stagnated while government debt ballooned. From 1976 to 1995, GDP growth in Sweden was about half the average of developed countries and a third lower than Europe’s large economies.

Sweden’s decline prompted tax and spending reforms in the early 1990s that increased labor productivity, private job growth and incomes. The rate of disposable income growth increased four-fold from 1996 to 2011. Sweden’s average GDP growth from 2010 to 2019 (2.6%) has far surpassed that of most European countries.

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America’s current economic trajectory, according to the GAO, is “unsustainable.”

America needs a plan that will shrink the size of government, shrink entitlement spending, re-incentivize work and productivity, eliminate ground-level debt, generate annual state and federal budget surpluses, and restore financial security for hard-working, tax-paying, God-fearing American families.

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