The majority of their income is "off the books" and therefore, not discoverable, or taxable. Poor on paper = welfare benefits up the ying yang.
What pisses me off more than anything is I'm driving a 13 year old GMC piece of sh*t. Every single one of the vehicles pictured in this thread is light years better than what I'm driving --- and I work for a living.
Who's the fool here, me or them?
Your car is that new? Damn your lucky!
Mine just turned 250,000 miles...
I wish they would have given me one of those “work” trucks that is never used for work in those photos.
In the meantime, while I save money for the down payment, I ride an incrementally restored motor-bike. (Right now, it needs moderate tranny-work, but it's in otherwise good condition for a ~37-year-old bike)
Not bad.
It gets worse: You should see the restaurant where I work. On weekends, the place is packed with Obamachildren.
As I round the corner after midnight (when the kitchen closes; the bar stays open for two more hours), some of the most luxurious cars one can only dream of owning fill the outdoor-mall lot.
British cars (Tip: up until recently, British-Leyland—Jaguar, LandRover, &c.—cars in America were manufactured by Ford), Cadillacs, Lincoln (of any type), &c. I think I also saw someone show up in a limo!
No doubt, they get Sec8, FoodStamps, AFDC, SSDI/SSI, Medicaid, SCHIP, and other miscellaneous subsidies. AND some of them deal in dope on the side. It's all tax-free cash.
Arguably, if anyone's not paying their "fair share" of taxes, it's obviously the sons and daughters of Barack Obama. (to mis-quote CS Lewis)
It's so bad, I want to reserve this particular <p> for a tirade of profanities in Spanish, but I'm still somewhat tired—I've worked almost five days straight...I don't think words exist in the English tongue that express my outrage...