What's nearly the same thing as cutting taxes? Taking the money, because it belongs in private hands where it can create jobs and wealthy job creator lifestyles! An 8 figure swindle from the heartland of Illinois:

The comptroller of a small city in Illinois is accused of misappropriating more than $30 million in city funds and using the money to support a "lavish lifestyle," including a large farm with over 150 horses, over $339,000 in jewelry, and numerous vehicles.

Rita Crundwell, 58, of Dixon, Ill. was arrested on Tuesday by the FBI on a federal charge for stealing more than $3.2 million in public funds since last fall. Authorities, however, believe she had been helping herself to the public funds since 2006.

FBI agents used seizure warrants at Crundwell's home, office, and her champion horse farm in Beloit, Wisc. as well as another farm in Dixon, and seized contents of two bank accounts she controlled......As the town's comptroller since the early 1980s, Crundwell earned an annual salary of $80,000....Dixon has a population of 16,000...