[FreeReign]

The point is that the federal government is so unflippinbelievable large and powerful that it’s almost IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID benefiting from federal “aid” at some time or another.

Fine. Then she shouldn't give false information about it.

[fightinJAG]

Why are you assuming she gave false, and deliberately false information?

If your FIL owned stocks in which he gave you an interest, but you never received a penny in income from the stocks, would it be a deliberate falsehood to say you never received one penny from those stocks? Yet you’d still have to report them as a “financial interest” for purpose of financial disclosure laws.