Refund Us our Taxpayer Dollars after the USAID incident

After discovering the insane priorities our taxpayer dollars were going to overseas, USAID should be required to refund us our money.

This is money laundering and hypocrisy at its finest, and our money should be going to fund the American people who still need assistance in North Carolina after the hurricane and the wildfires in California.

So herein lies the policy: Any government agency discovered to have been involved in money laundering and any who refuse to be transparent in their spending should immediately be investigated and publicly audited. These should always be available to the public to view. Any who refuse or have been discovered to have lied should be immediately be dismantled, fined, and required to refund that money to the American People.

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I had the same idea so I’ll add my policy here:

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USAID is funded by the Government, and the money the Government gets is money from taxes, and the taxes are paid for by . . . . US.

So your proposal is to take our money and then give it back to us, right?

The money USAID got is mostly, if not totally, gone, and we are 36 trillion dollars in debt, so there is no money to give back.

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This also applies to USAID…

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Those in Congress who authorized USAID should pay reparations to the American taxpayer…

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They should also be required to pay us interest! We get our taxes wrong and it’s discovered, we are not only fined, we are made to pay interest. The government should have to do the same because they KNOWINGLY mishandled and illegally used our hard earned money.

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Where would the money for the refund come from? USAID is a government agency. The money they gave away has already been spent. If they were to refund our taxpayer dollars to us, it would again be coming out of our tax dollars.

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I want a refund for all doge money found. I don’t want it to be limited to USAID. Wait until doge finds the corruption at DOD and NASA and all the other funds from Social Security. I want that refund.

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Assets should be seized from those found guilty of money laundering, bribery, corruption etc. I’m not saying it would be easy, or that it’s even possible to get it all back, but any individual or government agency that got rich off of stealing or mishandling our money should not be able to keep theirs.

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The money recovered could be used to re-fund Medicare, which is estimated to go broke in 10 years and Social Security, which is estimated to go broke in 8 years. Neither of these funds were supposed to be for government use so re-funding them would give taxpayers back the money they paid into them.

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This also applies to rogue agencies who cannot seem to operate on transparent budgets…

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The American people deserve compensation for having our tax money stolen from us. It’s only right that the government gives us something to try to make up for the crime it committed against us.

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Ashley, you are absolutely correct in your call for deserved compensation. A portion of those money-laundered and stolen funds bought a massive hoard of boats, cars, summer homes, gold and silver, land, stocks and bonds, etc. Perhaps the mis-appropriated money is gone, but those assets are still sitting around, scattered all over the planet, and in the direct possession of corrupt politicians (see: congressional leaders), their immediate families (see.: Chelsea Clinton wedding expenses), military brass and government officials (see: Pentagon and DOD generals), and even corporate CEOs (see: Facebook, Google, old-Twitter, Microsoft), Heads of charitable organizations (see: Catholic Charities), and thousands of corrupt NGO heads and directors.

If a person is wronged and suffers irreparable harm by the actions of another individual, whether via i malfeasance, intentional acts, indirect associations, misprision of felony, fraud, or treason, or even demonstrable neglect, then that injured party is normally compensated by the defendant for pain, suffering, and loss. This is how our judicial system operates. The same applies here, when government officials knowingly and purposely cause financial harm, and pain and suffering, to the American People. The old saying, “Nobody is above the law,” rings especially true in this case.

If the American People are ever to trust their government again (they already lost this generation of Americans), then future America need to see that the system worked properly and as expected, even if that system held its own government to account. Compensation is not only expected…it MUST happen, for the future survival of The Republic. Throughout History, many painful events have healed with Time; yet there are other times when painful events manifest into festering wounds that only grow worse. For our nation, this is one of those ‘other times’. :us:

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I didn’t think if interest! That’s a brilliant idea! The career politicians who have found to be guilty of stealing our tax payers dollars should be fined, and tried for their crimes on national television.

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