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What kind of welfare? Do you have stats or stories? I'm skeptical someone wealthy would slum it for the peanuts they could get from welfare fraud. Or if they d
by zzrrt 21d ago
What kind of welfare? Do you have stats or stories? I'm skeptical someone wealthy would slum it for the peanuts they could get from welfare fraud.
Or if they do, surely there are ways wealthy "real Americans" could hide their money just as easily and defraud welfare, so this isn't really a problem specific to birth tourism.
- throwaway85825 21d agoHard for Americans to hide their assets in america. Land ownership is usually public.
- zzrrt 21d agoThey can do whatever you presume the rich birth tourist does, like deposit in foreign banks, not own US land, obfuscate land ownership through trusts or straw owners.
- throwaway85825 20d agoMost Americans like owning their home.
- zzrrt 20d agoOne of my ideas was a way to fraudulently get most of the benefits of home ownership while hiding it; why wouldn't a rich dishonest Real American do that? Pride? So you think all children of wealthy birth tourists have no pride? It appears your argument is that foreigners are greedy, lazy, fraudulent, exploitative, and shameless, but Real Americans never stoop that low. Again, do you have statistics on this, or is just kind of a feeling?
- throwaway85825 20d agoIt's just not viable if you have a mortgage and insurance. There's also FinCEN reporting though temporarily suspended. I get the feeling you dont have any experience dealing with these bureaucracies. Otherwise you wouldn't be so flippant.
- wat10000 20d agoHow do these wealthy welfare queen birth tourism beneficiaries manage it?
- throwaway85825 20d agoBy having their assets overseas. You're going in circles now.
- zzrrt 20d agoBoth classes of people are American citizens, subject to the same laws and reporting. Why would one be able to hide assets overseas and the other not? If your answer is dual citizenship giving them access to banks abroad, a wealthy American can buy another citizenship. There is nothing to stop them from just not owning a mortgage or house, since that is the thing you say will catch them.