Everyone likes the idea of deficit reduction because it’s sort of like paying off the government’s credit card bills. Hell, the Democrats even ran on that platform last year. But, like usual, in attempting to do something about reducing the deficit, the government just fucked more shit up.

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The GAO is releasing a report today showing that some Medicaid providers owe $1 billion in back taxes on money paid to them by the federal government. The Senate is holding a hearing, people! Not that this is surprising, since GAO reported last March that Medicare providers also owe $1 billion in back taxes on money they earned from the federal government. Kicking them off the rolls means fewer services for the poor, which is what they’re counting on to scam the IRS. Naturally, no one has been able to figure out how to just withhold their taxes from the payments like how it works for the rest of us workaday schlubs. Different strokes for different folks, people. [Yahoo News, U.S. Senate, GAO]