The public taxpayer ends up paying for their housing, their food stamps, their bus fare, healthcare, etc. As I indicated, it's multi-generational. However, this

The public taxpayer ends up paying for their housing, their food stamps, their bus fare, healthcare, etc. As I indicated, it's multi-generational. However, this is because their behavior is degenerate. They spend all day being paranoid of people coming to take what little they have and lack any sort of trust in each other or themselves. Drugs are involved (including pot) across the board, excepting the little kids who are raised around it. As an aside, my best friend (prescribed adderall) has always been affected by "the curse of the gifted". When lower grade school is easy. After high school, real intellectual competition breaks that paradigm of "if it isn't easy for me, it's too hard" resulting in similar lazy adult behavior...although he does work. He's never been stable and still hovers just over minimum wage and cannot care for his kids. These problems that have similar outcome (like homelessness) which are often conflated.