Neoliberal fascists do the same thing everywhere; it is astonishing that these people have only one collective bag of tricks.

They sing the same song over here, and I feel compelled to mention two studies regarding this.

In Germany, about 60-65% of all social benefits receivers are checked and only around 1% of them cheat the system in some way. The average amount cheated is about 1600€.

Also in Germany, only about 2% of tax fillings of wealthy people above the 100k mark are checked. The fraud rate in this tiny pool is fucking 40%, and the average amount the state loses here? In the millions!

Another fact: the first study gets repeated regularly because the cry for social benefit fraudsters rings anew every fucking election cycle. And since the early 90s the rate of social benefit fraud has stayed that low consistently. It even sunk during austerity, inflation and Covid.

The poor suffer honestly.

The study about rich peoples cheating taxes en masse? That one was only done once and buried in the same pile the Panama Papers sleep.

If you ask me, the revolution cannot come soon enough.

it’s going to cost us more than than the government will ever get back. It always does. Meanwhile they continue to ignore the growing elephant in the room - TAX THE RICH instead of harassing the poor.

so Michelle Mone is first, then Nick Hancock, Boris Johnson etc.....

still want to know why someone who sells dodgy PPI to the health service can not only get away with it, but not have to pay it back. Oh, sorry, I forgot - they're large donors to the party that was in power.

It's a constant drone. These benefit fraudsters who probably don't do much more than be late for a DWP interview, Tory and Labour alike shrieking like the hounds of hell, meanwhile tax fraud is barely looked at, Tory and Labour alike.