What Percentage of Poor People are Scamming the System?

[rucky]

Poll question: What Percentage of Poor People are Scamming the System?

Which usually entails making up or exaggerating a hardship to receive public benefits?

Companion poll on wealthy scammers here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5738244

[Taverner]

1. Keep in mind you have to scam the system to stay alive...

[Xipe Totec]

2. If poor people were scamming, they would not be poor... n/t

[baldguy]

4. +1

[sandnsea]

3. Some

If you're married and employed, it's kind of tough to get the benefits your kids desperately need if you don't fudge here and there. The vast majority are single moms though, and they qualify with no need to fudge at all.

[Lars39]

5. All the safety net fraud doesn't even begin to compare to corporate welfare fraud.

[cloudbase]

6. There has yet to be a system devised

that somebody won't game for their personal benefit.

[rucky]

7. Now we're getting somewhere!

With social services, Republicans are quick to point out the scammers and eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

But when it comes to tax cheats, it's really just a "few bad apples" - or simply no big deal to them at all.