Anecdotally, I've seen very nice cars in areas with subsidized rent-- nicer than my working-class area. There's a saying in diplomacy that, "All aid is militar

Anecdotally, I've seen very nice cars in areas with subsidized rent-- nicer than my working-class area. There's a saying in diplomacy that, "All aid is military." Meaning, feeding a dictator's citizens only enables him to buy weapons with money he would have otherwise spent on food. This just being an expression of the fungibility of money. However, in California, at least, the various medicals, unemployment, etc., monitor your income pretty closely. If people are subsidizing their income with these programs, it would seem to imply there's an untracked (cash) economy with which to do that. All of my income comes in as 1099* I can't hide a cent.