• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Government investigations over frivolous things are a waste of taxpayer money and time.

    It's getting concerning no one answers this and acts like it's a giant thing…

    What do you think an investigation is?

    Like, an audit would take a low GS employee an afternoon…

    What do you think an investigation entails that it's prohibitively expensive?

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      1 year ago

      Whats wrong is this is retaliation by Republicans. Did you read the article? They're framing it as taxpayers paying for Peter to receive gay sex awards. Does that sound like a pressing issue? Or a real thing to you? Does that sound worthy of investigation? The Avengers should have never stopped Thanos.

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        They’re framing it as taxpayers paying for Pete ro receive gay sex awards.

        If I said Donald Trump cheated on his taxes to fund the cloning of hitler in the hollow core of the Earth, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about him cheating on his taxes…

        I feel like I'm going crazy here, I don't get why I'm not be clearer here.

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          Because your argument is fucken nuts, bro. This isn't an excersize in proactivity. Its obvious politcal retaliation.

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          I think you're looking at it from a rational view. However, most people don't actually look into things and instead just read headlines and make assumptions from there. They should absolutely look into any type of fraud, waste, and abuse but generally it is done behind closed doors. The only reason this is being broadcast out to the world, despite there being seemingly overwhelming evidence of no wrong doing, is to create headlines and a PERCEPTION of wrong doing. That perception is all they care about because to their constituents perception is reality.

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      It’s not just this case. This is a much wider pattern from the republicans to waste taxpayer money investigating things that they have no need to be involved in.

      The same idea applies to the hunter Biden probe. It’s politically motivated investigations that don’t need to be done, but are done because the republicans can use taxpayer money to hash out their problems.

      Nobody is saying this specific audit cost millions of dollars, but it certainly cost a whole lot more than just the salary of a single person for a few hours.