Florida bill would set hard prison time for welfare fraudsters

[Kyle Reese]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/10/florida-bill-would-set-hard-prison-time-for-welfare-fraudsters/


Ripping off Medicaid, food stamps or taxpayer-funded cash assistance programs for more than $100,000 could mean 30 years in prison, the sentencing equivalent of seriously hurting a law officer.

[Mike Honcho]

I'd be curious to know the percentage of welfare fraud that goes over $100k. I can't imagine it being that big a piece of the pie. If I'm right, then this law is basically a useless piece of crackdown theater.

[LittleLebowski]

That'll just cost Florida in prison expenses. See California and their prison guard's union backed "Three Strikes" law.

[rsa-otc]

Wasn't Florida the state that the prisons were so overcrowded that they were letting people out after serving only a portion of their sentence? So 30 years will mean what 3 to 10 maybe.