Cut Them Off - Government Really Does Waste Most Taxpayer Dollars

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Government Really Does Waste Most Taxpayer Dollars | The Daily Caller

RACHEL STOLTZFOOS 10-18-14

The federal government wastes most taxpayer dollars, not only by making poor or fradulent spending decisions, but also by funding inefficient entitlement programs and unnecessarily redistributing wealth, argues Heritage Foundation budget economist Romina Boccia.

“Any Social Security check going to a millionaire, I call that government waste,” Boccia told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “If we decide that the government has a role to protect the elderly and disabled from destitution, if we think that a federal role is required there, then sending Social Security checks to millionaires is a waste.”

Much attention is given to wasteful discretionary spending on things like completely unnecessary bridges or lavish parties for bureaucrats, and a 2014 Gallup poll showed Americans believe the government wastes 51 cents of every dollar, Boccia points out in her new report, titled “Eliminating Waste and Controlling Government Spending.” But in terms of economic principles, most of that waste happens in the realm of mandatory spending on programs like Social Security and Medicare.

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