Quote:
Originally Posted by Stealhead
It is so easy it is sad these are the ones that get all the cheese.Simply get yourself a lawyer who will have a doctor either completely create or greatly exaggerate an illness to a level that makes you eligible for the type of benefits that you seek.Most of the time the lawyer wins the case because it is their bread and butter they know what to say how to game so that you win.There are law firms all over the US that specialize in this.
I have also heard (this may not be true) that if you have things like ADD ADHD you can claim that this keeps you from working making you disabled.This is funny to me because I have ADD and take no drugs I just deal with it I honestly think that it makes me a better worker because I am focused on getting the job done and keeping myself busy yet some people use it as an excuse not to work.
It must be a mentality that is common because when I was separating from the military a VA rep told me that I simply had to list three or four times that I ever went to a clinic for a non scheduled reason(so not for the annual) and they could possibly give me 10% disability I said that I do not need 10% disability for things that have no long term effect on my health.
The others that is probably lack of education lack of any learned work ethic so they have no desire to improve themselves.
Or the smallest number become ultra wealthy.
|
Not so fast. Before we start making assumptions, lets look at demographics.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...matter/262506/
Quote:
In 2011, 47% of Americans paid no federal income taxes. Within that group, two-thirds still pay payroll taxes. The rest are almost all either (a) old and retired folks collecting Social Security or (b) households earning less than $20,000. Overall, four out of five households not owing federal income tax earn less than $30,000, according to the Tax Policy Center.
Here's another, slightly wonkier, way to think about the 47%. Divide the group into two halves. The first half is made tax-free by credits and exemptions, the vast majority of which go to senior citizens and children of the working poor. The half that you're left with is so poor, they wouldn't owe federal income taxes even if there were zero tax expenditures.
|
So if you want to pin this on non-elderly people able to work but laying around with no job at all and soaking up the government benefits, you're really looking at around 8% of the population.