Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Fact Check: 'New American Way Of Life' Meme - Snopes

As is often the case with e-mail polemics focused on purported welfare abuse and taxpayer outrage, the "New American Way of Life" offers an implausible, far-fetched scenario to condemn those who use public assistance to make ends meet.

A "New American Way of Life" scamming scheme that laments a generous welfare state in America is largely off-base.

While this trope asserts that the complex welfare hustling plan described here is "perfectly legal," several aspects of it involve defrauding the system in an expressly prohibited (and largely criminal) fashion.

Were any family to hide assets or lie about household income on application forms, they would be subject to severe penalties and prosecution should their perfidy be unraveled. The scheme also rests upon the (fallacious) notion that access to assistance programs is easy to both maintain and retain.

As is often the case with e-mail polemics focused on purported welfare abuse and taxpayeroutrage, the "New American Way of Life" offers an implausible, far-fetched scenario to condemn those who use public assistance to make ends meet.

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