@Marty Bent to your point on the US economy requiring the fraudulent activity.
You’re absolutely right and it is designed / justified by the necessity of getting capital flowing into certain municipalities that private enterprise has left behind. If the USA didn’t have these fraudulent mechanisms to get capital to remote / less economically viable cities, towns then you’d have absolute collapse of (and associated social unrest within) towns that were built up around Industrial Revolution economies. Cities & towns that no longer have a private economic justification to exist. But Americans live there, have mortgages there, and are hyper resistant to leave their homes.
As repulsive as the whole thing is, it serves a critical function to the US economy and our continued social stability.
Now the whole DEI and political contribution funneling angles are an additional layer that I’m not taking about. But I can see why both political parties are funneling fraudulent capital to thousands of cities & towns across the country.
