Alabama parents rights groups allege state profits off of broken families

"Alabama parents rights groups are crying foul over federal incentive payments to the States under a Social Security program that pays two dollars for every dollar collected by the State for State-imposed child support orders. [42 U.S.C. §658a] The groups allege these laws promote aggressive practices which result in constitutional rights violations and unnecessary government intrusion into the parent-child relationship.

As early as 1998, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee admitted, 'Most States make a profit on their child support program.' The committee also noted, 'States are free to spend this profit in any manner the State sees fits.

In 2002, the same House committee reported that, 'The overall financial impact of the child support enforcement program on taxpayers is negative.' [Committee Report, page 8-69] The American taxpayers lost $2.7 billion on the program in 2002 alone."

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The Fed pays/matches 2 dollars to every 1 collected in child support orders? Sounds to me like the States have a pretty good ponzi scheme going on, making billions off the US taxpayers, putting "the States" best interests and profiteering ahead of the best interest of children and families. It's "all about the money" as usual, and ironically it is "we the people", the taxpayers, that are supporting this ponzi scheme and madness, wake up people!

...and people wonder why the country is 15 trillion in debt and why families are being torn apart? This is only one of the many reasons. It surely seems that if the many different arms of government are not full of corruption, fraud and or extortion, that they are just simply not working correctly and doing more harm than good.

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