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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 05:49 PM
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Poll question: What Percentage of Poor People are Scamming the System?
Edited on Thu May-28-09 05:52 PM by rucky
Which usually entails making up or exaggerating a hardship to receive public benefits?

Companion poll on wealthy scammers here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5738244
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 05:50 PM
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1. Keep in mind you have to scam the system to stay alive...
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 05:51 PM
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2. If poor people were scamming, they would not be poor... n/t
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 05:57 PM
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4. +1
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 05:55 PM
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3. Some
If you're married and employed, it's kind of tough to get the benefits your kids desperately need if you don't fudge here and there. The vast majority are single moms though, and they qualify with no need to fudge at all.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 06:04 PM
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5. All the safety net fraud doesn't even begin to compare to corporate welfare fraud.
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cloudbase Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 06:22 PM
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6. There has yet to be a system devised
that somebody won't game for their personal benefit.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 06:30 PM
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7. Now we're getting somewhere!
With social services, Republicans are quick to point out the scammers and eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

But when it comes to tax cheats, it's really just a "few bad apples" - or simply no big deal to them at all.
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