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RichVRichV

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62. The point is we don't know how much of it is wasted or lost because we don't audit it.

Fri Jan 1, 2016, 06:50 PM

Jan 2016

Even if it only wastes 10% of it's budget a year, that's still $60 billion a year that could be used elsewhere. That would solve a decent number of domestic cuts we're currently making.

The simple fact is if the amount saved by auditing is greater then the cost to audit, then it's worth it to audit the whole thing. The entire armed forces (every branch, every division, ever base, every deployment) should be filing quarterly or yearly reports just like people do with taxes, and businesses do with the SEC. Then we should audit a certain percentage each year to verify they're being truthful.

Every single dollar (or as close as we can feasibly get) should be accounted for every year on every government agency, including the DoD. That much is owed to the US taxpayers.

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