Some people are surprised that there is fraud in the system. I encourage those folks to explore the concept of moral hazard. Economist Milton Friedman famously described this scenario, stating that when one spends someone else’s money on someone else, there is no concern about the cost or quality of the expenditure, as the spender does not bear the risk or benefit. It is almost certain that the fraud being uncovered in Minnesota is a tiny fraction of the overall theft occurring in the system. Remember that every year, when tax receipts are insufficient to cover the federal budget, they literally print the difference into existence with a computer keystroke. There is no reason to expect anyone managing the distribution of this capital to treat it with any concern whatsoever. It isn’t their money, and the money isn’t even real. If they mismanage it, they will just print more. I have a lot of respect for the people calling for a tax revolt. The Founding Fathers were willing to die to fight against a considerably smaller degree of theft in their system. They would not be proud of where we are today as a nation.