In order to make $30,000/year, a homeless person would have to make about $115/day, assuming that the said homeless person "works" on M-F every week of the year. Are you really going to sit there and tell me that that's possible? Really? Cause that's a big cup of change to lug around every day. Although, I do regularly see homeless dudes with big biceps, so that must explain it! And I thought they were doing pushups every morning on the side of the road.
Damn, if homelessness makes $30,000, why are any of us working? Plus, you get to sleep in the open air every day AND not pay taxes. What could be better than that?
Gee, when I do the math I come out with $82.20 per day. That would be presuming the commissions were the same 365 days a year. They're probably higher during the holidays (cold weather, warm hearts) and lower during the tax season. Whatever it is on any given day, they spend it. And "work" again for it on another corner tomorrow.
Your remarks are evidently predicated on the notion that these folks bank like the rest of us. Please go back and read what Xenalyte was trying to explain to you and what citizens everywhere fail to keep in mind:
They are not interested in playing by society's rules. All the do-gooder programs in the world won't change that.
There's a circuit involved, too. They are known to the police and often told not to come back. They leave town awhile and return. One person "lived" at a bus stop near the airport here. S/he left a sign "gone to FL for the winter. Thanks for all the help, see you in the spring!"
I kid you not.
A while back, there was a thread about a couple who were "professional panhandlers". They preferred panhandling to holding a "regular job." They had a couple of kids and made at least $30,000/yr.