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Each year we paid billions on property tax to the county. I am wondering how can we trust people in county didn't put money in they pockets? Did we elect the leaders of the county each year?
I remember last year has a news a housekeeper found county leaders in LA paid themselves million dollars salary, but later media didn't have following up report(covered, why?)
I'm almost afraid to answer, this sounds like some sort of troll question. But you've been a member for years, maybe it's serious? I'll pick one small part of your post...
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Originally Posted by truelies
Each year we paid billions on property tax to the county. I am wondering how can we trust people in county didn't put money in they pockets? Did we elect the leaders of the county each year?
We send billions to various levels of governments--state, feds, local, etc. There are serious checks & balances to prevent outright theft/fraud. It would take several people working together to pull off the type of theft you refer to. Very unlikely to happen.
What does happen is gov officials (elected or not) pulling a scam, rather than outright theft (I know, semantics). They'll set up a friend as a vendor, then have them bill for work that was never done. Yada yada a million examples....
I'm almost afraid to answer, this sounds like some sort of troll question. But you've been a member for years, maybe it's serious? I'll pick one small part of your post...
I'm an idiot, I misread your join date, you're not an old member. Just a new id... oh nevermind.
I'm almost afraid to answer, this sounds like some sort of troll question. But you've been a member for years, maybe it's serious? I'll pick one small part of your post...
We send billions to various levels of governments--state, feds, local, etc. There are serious checks & balances to prevent outright theft/fraud. It would take several people working together to pull off the type of theft you refer to. Very unlikely to happen.
What does happen is gov officials (elected or not) pulling a scam, rather than outright theft (I know, semantics). They'll set up a friend as a vendor, then have them bill for work that was never done. Yada yada a million examples....
That's the truth.
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). They'll set up a friend as a vendor, then have them bill for work that was never done. Yada yada a million examples....
