There’s excellent money to be made by panhandling.
Think about it. You pay no federal taxes. No state taxes. It’s tax-free income. And if someone gives you a $5 every 15 minutes, that’s $20/hr tax free. You’d have to actually work for $30/hr to make that kind of money.
On Sunday May 21, a video was uploaded to YouTube of a woman in Virginia who pretended to be homeless in order to beg for money. In the video, which made it to Reddit’s front page on Monday, she was confronted as two men discovered that she had left her panhandling spot to go back to her car.
The woman, later identified as Micha Leigh Dominguez, was known in the area for soliciting people for money near an intersection in Richmond, Virginia. After watching her finish her panhandling and leave the area, two men decided to see where she went and followed her around the corner.
She arrived at a McDonalds parking lot, where she was parked. That’s when she is confronted with the fact that her car, a good-looking model from 2014, called into question her need to beg for money in the first place.