Child Care Scams Fleece Wisconsin Taxpayers

I'm confident that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Can you imagine if we let these same people run what's left of our private healthcare? Thanks to Freakonomics for the heads-up on this story, a two part series. Long but well-worth the time to see the scope of the problem. It reads like a nightmare of moral hazard, bureaucracy, and theft.

Note, these stories and data are limited to just Milwaukee and Wisconsin. There are 49 other states, plus D.C. ...

Part 1.
Child-care scams rake in thousands - JSOnline: "On paper Angela Hale is a child-care provider. She reported taking care of the same five kids seven days a week while their mom supposedly worked at a lawn-care service, even in the winter months."

Part 2.
Child care loopholes lead to easy money - JSOnline: "The two-story house on 17th St. looks typical of the working-class homes on Racine's west side. Three bedrooms, one bath. Assessed by the city at $122,000. Yet inside, a young woman has tapped into a home-based money-making operation that netted her and her three sisters more than half a million in taxpayer dollars since 2006. And they did it with the blessing of the state."