[mia]

I can think of a lot of tax cheats. They claim to have no or very little income, yet drive expensive cars, have gold draped all over their bodies, dress in expensive clothes, don’t work and pick up food, toys and other household items at the local charities so their children can eat and have Christmas presents. It’s all on your priorities and what you have to sell.

[Little Bill]

As a test of the system, I applied for food stamps. I had been unemployed for a year, I had no income, living on my nickle so to speak, for the past year.

The thing that killed me was I owned two houses, though I drew no income from either property. I have mega bucks in sheltered retirement accounts, I got out of the market early and went all cash, and I was below retirement age, marginally.

If I moved one or more of my properties into an irrevocable trust I would have qualified and I could eat steak and lobster.