Post your examples of government wasting your money here

Ya, so you see, private companies are in the business of profiting off of their service and so their prices reflect that. Government agencies aren't.

Hope this helps.

The word Government means Waste!!!

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While I get taxed to death and have to pay out the nose for health care

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I absolutely agree on not giving illegals free healthcare, but to be clear, you pay more in healthcare because of insurance companies constantly trying to increase their profits.

Us embassy in Papua New Guinea. Staff stay in the most expensive housing in the entire country. The embassy itself is built on the most expensive property in the country. The UsA has very little influence there. We should influence and support Australia in their role to combat china bs having our influence. I imagine that’s the case in many countries we operate.

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Government agencies aren't.

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They should be like a business as much as possible, especially when they charge for their services like the USPS... Taxpayers should not be subsidizing package delivery...

You’re really ruining FriYay

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True.

But obamacare capped their profits to a % of their expenditures. The only way to increase profit is to increase expenditures (raise cost of Healthcare services)

So government caused the majority of healthcare cost invreases.

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Ok, the put a profit margin cap. Maybe the issue is companies shouldn't be so greedy profiting from your health.

"A tried and true way to drive efficiency."

Well the old methods companies used to drive efficiency in costs was to put liftime limits and deny pre-existing conditions, so I think the cost plus is the lesser of two evils for the patient.

IRS itself. Budget is in the billions, more than 90k employees.

If we simplified the tax code, most of what the IRS does would be completely unnecessary.

In the 90s, the government put out a request for quote to create a free e-filing service for citizens. Intuit responded and said they would provide their services for free to W-2 employees and manage themselves at no cost. Ever since, Intuit and other services have lobbied the government to keep the tax code complicated enough to warrant their services.

The problem comes from the incentives in our current government. Agencies do not have any incentive to save the taxpayers money. First, they operate on a use-it-or-lose-it budget. They all make sure to spend as much of their budget as possible. Secondly, the budget benefits by the size, power, reach, and employment of the agency. What this incentivizes is agencies that endlessly grow and gobble up tax revenue.

The LARGE gov agency I work for replaces ALL office chairs every four or five years, regardless if they are functional.

Giving my social security money away to low life lazy muther frickers with pretend disabilities. And not investing my money so that I can live comfortably when I am an old dried up fart.

Paying a-hole buddies of theirs to do endless studies on every single project.

Blocking progress on infrastructure in the name of horse shite environmental issues.

Perfect example is the I-49 project through Lafayette. Going on 35 years and no progress has been made. Study after study to determine if the environment will be fricked up by placing a road way in the exact location of an existing roadway.