Washington Post Article Rating

Opinion | Americans should not become comfortable with wasted tax dollars

Apr 04, 2022 View Original Article
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    -26% Somewhat Liberal

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    -26% Somewhat Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : Having retired after 43 years in federal law enforcement, which included more than 20 years in the inspector general community focusing on government waste, fraud and abuse, I was troubled at the conclusion by Megan McArdle that taxpayers should be understanding of the government's push to get Paycheck Protection Program money out the door without appropriate steps to avoid $800 billion in fraud ["PPP wasn't fraud-proof, but it was a success," Wednesday Opinion, March 30].

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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