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The Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act requires agency managers to annually evaluate their internal control systems and report to the President and the Congress any material weaknesses that could lead to fraud, waste, and abuse in government operations.
But 1995 was unusually high--especially for low-income filers--because of two special compliance programs, including a crackdown on widespread abuse of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
(Though some diehard libertarians will object that the prosperity is an illusion, because governments that have been empowered to make us more prosperous will inevitably abuse that power to our detriment.)
"I mean, this is a potential abuse of the American system on behalf of an Indonesian billionaire in a way we have never seen in American history."
More than 70 percent of Swiss voters approved tougher rules restricting asylum-seekers and rejected a proposal for maternity leave, presumably concerned that some incoming baby might abuse the law.