If a GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper and?

fraudulent, or embezzled, why do we allow government employees to have credit cards?





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See point #8 and the footnote for sources.|||We shouldn't we do so because no one has had the stones to stop them, but soon they will get the message again and maybe this time they will heed it|||The problem isn't credit cards, but lax controls over verifying that all expenses are legit and necessary. One can commit just as much fraud with their own credit card as a government one.





The advantage, however, of the government card is that it's a lot easier to trace things. The credit card companies give the government detailed reports.|||I agree that government employees should not have credit cards. In general the report points to one big failure, that of oversight. I would like to see a one time program that gave government employees 10% of the money they saved by eliminating duplication, waste, fraud and abuse. That would shrink the size of government.|||why do we have government at all. This is guaranteed to happen any time you invite government into anything that isn't strictly essential service.|||because no business would let the goverment run an open account , getting them to pay it is like pulling teeth and The state governments are worst|||Where are the prosecutions ?


Get rid of the credit cards or put a $50.00 limit on them|||The message from the last election was clear...stop over spending!