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Originally Posted by Silver Streak
Are the people mowing your lawn or serving your food or checking you out at the grocery store "parasites"? I don't think so.
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Many independent yard care and house cleaners work for cash and pay no taxes on income. Based on their very low reported incomes they frequently receive other subsidies, food stamps (now known as Electronic Benefits Transfer - EBT) Section 8 housing, Obamacare, Medicaid, and so on. Many are quite smart and expert on how to obtain the greatest amount of welfare (which is what subsidies are) from federal, state and municipal government entities. Some are multigenerational in working welfare systems. It is their lifestyle choice, just as it is with many if not most of the homeless.
Most grocery store workers are union I imagine as when I went to work part time at age 14 in 1956 bagging groceries I was forced to join the union and pay it a percentage of my fraction of a dollar hourly wage. Might have been 35 cents per hour. I cannot recall.