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Everyday in the USA, millions win the lottery — the Section 8 Voucher lottery given to them by the U.S. Congress.



Where I live in sunny, well-to-do Southern California, not far from Los Angeles, and minutes from world famous beaches, there are non-profits who act as landlords for Section 8 voucher lottery winners.

I've seen the data. There are many who live in apartments that would require a $48,000 gross income to pay the rent who live there free-to-them and near-free to them, all paid for by the U.S. Congress.

And where does Congress get the funds to pay landlords? Congress borrows most of it and taxes many "middle class" Americans with few deductions at such confiscatory rates to pay for the debt service on the borrowing.

I know of one case where person X, "Veronica," earns about $44,000 a year and  with her Section 8 subsidy, her gross income gets bumped up by Congress to $92,000 a year. Sure, each month, she pays a fraction of the rent and yes, her employer withholds taxes.

However, the Section 8 welfare she gets far exceeds her withholding. In short, she isn't paying taxes at all to Congress.

You are reading that right. The welfare she receives exceeds her income and more than doubles it! She lives as if she has an engineering degree from Cal Poly rather than the Hungarian immigrant high school grad she is who works as a personal services technician, a dog groomer!

Congress believes she should be among the lucky who get bumped up to a upper middle class income and lifestyle, in effect, give her more buying power than those who I know who work hard for $55,000 a year. Sadly, those who know I who earn $55,000 earn too much to qualify for any welfare from Congress.

On top of that, she gets EIC for two children under the age of 18! So Congress actually pays her for having kiddos!

I know of another person, "Dan," who skipped many school days and dosed out on acid. Then for years during early adulthood, he continued tripping on acid weekly. He said she has tripped over 5,000 times.

Anyway, all of his drugging destabilized his brain. So what did he do?He went to doctors saying he had mental problems and boom, they gave him disability!

Now, Congress gives him $23,000 in gross income for rent via the Section 8 program and another $10,000 or so in Social Security Disability Income. He gets all of that because of his voluntary drugging that fried his brain.

And there is another case of a family whose combined household income from wages exceeds $90,000 and yet Congress still gives them another $48,000 gross income, effectively. They have a gross income of over $138,000 a year thanks to Congress! The rather large wife from Mexico can't speak English even though she has lived in the USA for 20 years. Her Mexican husband works as a pizza delivery guy.

And you are going to get steamed even more over this. Many of the residents in these subsidized apartments could be illegal aliens. The State Lawgivers of California prohibit landlords from checking on immigration status.

As well, Congress provides block grants that end up in the pockets of these non-profit landlords to subsidize even more. The lawgivers of California provide these block grants as well.

Most Americans don't know anything about this. Congress has turned America into a socialist paradise for some.

Why live on Section 8 welfare in East St. Louis where you must duck bullets when you can live in sunny Southern California among the rich in some of the most sophisticated cities in the USA? You can.

I see it first hand. I have intimate knowledge of the workings of the Section 8 system in Southern California.

If there were no rent subsidies, rents would plummet tomorrow. Rents would become affordable to even the lowest paid workers.


SNAP (Food Stamps) welfare works the same way — artificially raising food prices.

All of this was decided during the George Herbert Walker Bush years and his "kinder, gentler" America program.


Capitalism, work, ingenuity — all of this is getting killed by a socialist-leaning Congress, a socialist-for-the-masses, exclusivity-for-the-richest-elites (think: Warren Buffet). It's no wonder how many call this current version of America, neo-feudalism, a kind of hybrid socialism-fascism-feudalism.

And while no one should care how Congress spends their funds, all should care how much Congress can legally steal from anyone. No American should be forced to pay a sum of taxes that exceeds 12% of her or his income in any year to Congress.

The time has come for a constitutional amendment that puts Congress in tax shackles. Likely, it might be the only amendment Americans need. That amendment should limit the sum of taxes Congress can collect from anyone in whatever form to 12% of his or her income in a year.

Legislating should be hard. Congress should be forced to decide between guns and butter.


Today, the New York Times published a story about how the City of Los Angeles is going to blow $100 million on grubby welfare-seekers.

The whole thing reminds me of this video Peter Schiff put together a year or so back.

America. It's so over.