Two-time Foot Locker xc runnerup Sharif Karie sentenced to 58 months in federal prison

Yes it is. Webb ran in his shadow.

This doesn’t look good for him.

Ok, just read he got 58 months with no parole possibility. Seems light.

It's all about the kids!!!

If you dont let the government have money, you will be found and punished considerably.

He should have worn Vaporflys if he wanted to outrun these charges!!!

What are you talking about? He wasn't nailed for failing to pay taxes, he committed fraud to collect money from the government.

More reason to spend government dollars directly on public pre-k and child care facilities, rather than funnelling it into private interests with subpar facilities and limited oversight, as in this case.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

More reason to spend government dollars directly on public pre-k and child care facilities, rather than funnelling it into private interests with subpar facilities and limited oversight, as in this case.

Go work at a VA, and you'll see that your suggestion would likely lead to a much greater waste than $556,000.

Love seeing my state of Missouri being defrauded like that, at least they caught him. So many dirtbags using our bloated govt systems in this country to their advantage. Just sickening. Need to send his butt back to Arkansas once he gets out of jail in 5 years!

zxcvzxcv wrote:

More reason to spend government dollars directly on public pre-k and child care facilities, rather than funnelling it into private interests with subpar facilities and limited oversight, as in this case.

Completely wrong answer. Funneling money through government is never the best way to do something, whether it is directly like you want or through private companies using subsidies. Govt being involved in much of anything other than public safety and public infrastructure projects is the wrong way to go, its just a magnet for corruption. We'd all be shocked how easy it'd be to balance local, state, and federal budgets with current tax receipts if we could magically get rid of all the fraud.

another perspective wrote:

zxcvzxcv wrote:

More reason to spend government dollars directly on public pre-k and child care facilities, rather than funnelling it into private interests with subpar facilities and limited oversight, as in this case.

Completely wrong answer. Funneling money through government is never the best way to do something, whether it is directly like you want or through private companies using subsidies. Govt being involved in much of anything other than public safety and public infrastructure projects is the wrong way to go, its just a magnet for corruption. We'd all be shocked how easy it'd be to balance local, state, and federal budgets with current tax receipts if we could magically get rid of all the fraud.

This is all correct, but there's one issue: many industries would run out of control without government involvement (even with the corruption). Specifically, healthcare, childcare, and banking. The first two would raise prices to the moon and the third would take on risky investments and lose everyone's money for at least the fourth time (1907, 1929, 2007). You're right in that the government being involved is never efficient, but the government not being involved may be less efficient.

The best solution is unknown.

Is this why the United States leads all countries with socialized medicine in the amount of health care fraud?

Nonsense. Using government to pay private industry is wasteful and prone to corruption. Legislators are paid off in donations to go light on the regulation. The VA has major problems from being underfunded by Congress, but it's still far, far cheaper than private industry, and remember that it's dealing with much bigger problems than a lot of hospitals that can pick and choose their patients. Karie's day care was bilking the gov't for substantial sums and avoiding oversight. That is typical for charter schools as well.

You're right about a number of points as to the necessity of gov't regulation, but government is often cheaper, as in any comparison of Medicare and private insurance. Medicare wins by a landslide. Same goes for Social Security.

zxcvzvcx wrote:

Nonsense. Using government to pay private industry is wasteful and prone to corruption. Legislators are paid off in donations to go light on the regulation. The VA has major problems from being underfunded by Congress, but it's still far, far cheaper than private industry, and remember that it's dealing with much bigger problems than a lot of hospitals that can pick and choose their patients. Karie's day care was bilking the gov't for substantial sums and avoiding oversight. That is typical for charter schools as well.

+1

another perspective wrote:

zxcvzxcv wrote:

More reason to spend government dollars directly on public pre-k and child care facilities, rather than funnelling it into private interests with subpar facilities and limited oversight, as in this case.

Completely wrong answer. Funneling money through government is never the best way to do something, whether it is directly like you want or through private companies using subsidies. Govt being involved in much of anything other than public safety and public infrastructure projects is the wrong way to go, its just a magnet for corruption. We'd all be shocked how easy it'd be to balance local, state, and federal budgets with current tax receipts if we could magically get rid of all the fraud.

Because there is no fraud in corporate culture? Your canard is immature.

Why is daycare such a big business and why is the federal government involved in subsidizing?

Not that long ago a working class family (not to be confused with the media term "middle class")

did just fine with one paycheck coming into the household.

Exactly. Corruption is a function of an immoral society where wealth and power takes greater precedence over values. You combat this by having a system of checks and balances and eliminating corruption at the roots (education, not glorifying rich people, election reform)