{"id":1998,"date":"2010-06-24T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:31:29","slug":"watching_where_your_money_goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"Watching Where Your Money Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/37870056\">CNBC News<\/a>&nbsp;reported yesterday that more than $9 million&nbsp;of the tax credits for homebuyers went to nearly 1,300 prison&nbsp;inmates.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span><em>&#8220;In all, more than 14,100 taxpayers wrongly received at least $26.7 million in tax credits that were meant to boost the nation&#8217;s slumping housing markets, said the report by J. Russell George, the Treasury Department&#8217;s inspector general for tax administration.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"textBodyBlack\">The article also reported that 87 IRS employees may have improperly claimed the credit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"textBodyBlack\">At a time when taxpayers are dealing with unemployement, tighter budgets, and an economy&nbsp; that does not seem to be creating jobs, the last thing we need is to find out that the taxes were are paying are being badly mishandled.&nbsp; This is a further example of the fact that the government has gotten too big and cannot police itself.&nbsp; We need a smaller government with more transparency so that the taxpayers know where their money is going.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC News&nbsp;reported yesterday that more than $9 million&nbsp;of the tax credits for homebuyers went to nearly 1,300 prison&nbsp;inmates.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;In all, more than 14,100 taxpayers wrongly received at least $26.7 million in tax credits that were meant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}