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Completely agree. The real scandal has been egregious unemployment claims fraud. Hundreds of millions from California alone, and multiple states have been targeted[0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/us/california-unemploymen...



I'm frankly much more concerned about the people who were incorrectly denied unemployment they deserved.


That's undercounted too, as they would only report the fraud they already uncovered. People outside the US are taking advantage and that money is gone: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/u-s-secret-service-massi...

There's also fraud from the money that's supposed to go to small businesses. My family lives in Chicago and it feels like their entire neighborhood all got $10,000 by pretending to be small businesses, and they teach each other how to do it. Everyone they know has gotten money from that and its become a meme ("did you buy that coat with your 10K check?"). My family is trying their best to resist also throwing in some applications to just get a piece of that.




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