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Certainly, but as it turns out the cost of policing such things ends up being more than the losses of covering such folk. That was the experience when Canada abolished the means test on the Old AGe pension. What tey did instead was tax incomes above a certaain level so that the OAS went mainly to those in need.
I would alos like to broaden the definition of deadbeat to include the Masters of the Universe from AIG along with hedge fund managers that pay tax at a lower rate than their secretaries. And just about anyone else from Wall Street. I mean to say what exactly is it that stockbrokers contribute to the GDP, or anything else for that matter.
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