What if everyone took a lesson from the meth heads. They don't pay taxes, they trade and barter for everything. They have ebt cards for food which they trade for meth. The see a lawn mower sitting beside a house, they take it and trade it for meth. Now for a second think about what that, done ethically, would do to the local, state and federal government. You have no income, so I qualify for EBT. You paint someone's garage for some bread, steaks, hamburger and chicken food. You shovel chicken shit in return for a couple of hens and a rooster. Soon you have your own chicken farm. No taxes collected on sales, no declarable income. The system would collapse because of all the government employees that need paychecks to pay their mortgages, etc.