These people are not at the poverty level. My wife and I never made over $40,00 a year, raised my two stepsons, payed child support for my two sons, payed off our mortgage at 49 years old and have bought a new car this year, and pay taxes. We did it with hard work, being frugal and buying what we needed, not what we wanted.

It's not how much one makes, but how one manages their money. People that have to have it all and have it now, like so many in our country, cry about what they don't have but overlook what they do have.

Maybe one couldn't live for $40K in Chicago, but in this country one is free to pursue their dream anywhere. There is no Constitutional right to have the income of our choice, live where one can't afford, afford what one doesn't earn. You get out of life what you put into it. Freedom of OPPORTUNITY is what we have, NOT rights of result. Just because people for whatever the reason, lack effort, intelligence, abilities, don't have what others have, gives them no right to live off of the taxes of others.