As we’ve noted here before, the federal disability program cost about $190 billion last year, in payments to disabled workers and health care for them. That’s the equivalent of roughly $1,500 in taxes for every American household.
Many are these workers are truly disabled. For others, though, disability has become a shadow program of long-term unemployment benefits, providing modest payments to people who probably can work and would do so if they could find a job with decent pay.
In The Wall Street Journal today, Damian Paletta has an article about a West Virginia administrative law judge who may provide the single best example of the system’s problems. Since the start of last year, the judge, David B. Daugherty, has heard more than 2,000 disability cases. He has awarded benefits in all but four of those cases, an approval rate of 99.8 percent. NYT
This is more likely a concerted effort by a very over represented state, a coordinated political scam to rob California and New York taxpayers. I cannot complain to my 1/5 of a Senator, she has no time for the small stuff. But the $1500 it costs Fresno County home owners would go a long way toward paying back property taxes, and possibly keep the county off the bankruptcy rolls. Does the Marin County Mafia care? No, they are elites.
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