Looking at the U.S. Government's own records, over $12.4 trillion has gone "missing," according to Masters-In-Accounting.org. That's over 70% of our $17T national debt.

For the millions of American's who go through the stress and belt-tightening each year of preparing & paying their taxes, it begs the question Why bother? if the money is just going to be lost through mismanagement and/or fraud:



Source: Missing Money