• BURN@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The republicans don’t care what the outcome of the investigation is. They just want to use it as a political gotcha.

    Government investigations over frivolous things are a waste of taxpayer money and time.

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      11 months ago

      Government investigations over frivolous things are a waste of taxpayer money and time.

      It’s getting concerning no one answers this and acts like it’s a giant thing…

      What do you think an investigation is?

      Like, an audit would take a low GS employee an afternoon…

      What do you think an investigation entails that it’s prohibitively expensive?

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        11 months ago

        It’s not just this case. This is a much wider pattern from the republicans to waste taxpayer money investigating things that they have no need to be involved in.

        The same idea applies to the hunter Biden probe. It’s politically motivated investigations that don’t need to be done, but are done because the republicans can use taxpayer money to hash out their problems.

        Nobody is saying this specific audit cost millions of dollars, but it certainly cost a whole lot more than just the salary of a single person for a few hours.

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        11 months ago

        Whats wrong is this is retaliation by Republicans. Did you read the article? They’re framing it as taxpayers paying for Peter to receive gay sex awards. Does that sound like a pressing issue? Or a real thing to you? Does that sound worthy of investigation? The Avengers should have never stopped Thanos.