Ever since the Federation began imposing the "Public Resource Occupation Tax" on vagrants, their numbers across the Federation had dropped considerably.
However, this group had not disappeared because of it. They had merely become somewhat fewer. The group had not perished.
Through begging and theft, as long as the money they earned was enough to pay this tax, they would not go work in factories.
What could be freer than lying in newspapers and cardboard boxes while stretching out a "hand in need of assistance" toward passersby?
Ever since the Public Resource Occupation Tax was enacted, some civilian groups, including the media, had begun paying attention to these people.
Surprisingly, around twenty to thirty percent of the vagrants had Social Insurance! In other words, some of them had already met the minimum requirements for receiving pensions, and some had even begun collecting them!
Some reporters interviewed vagrants and asked why, since they had Social Insurance, they did not move to a cleaner or more comfortable environment.
Those vagrants pointed out that they had no bills whatsoever each week, while still having money left over to spend however they pleased.
And as long as they had some food, they could find someone of the opposite sex among the vagrants to satisfy their physical needs. They were therefore uninterested in ordinary life.
Perhaps this was a way of viewing life, a state of survival.
He had not been hiding among the vagrants for long before he was discovered.
The vagrants were actually organized, and quite hostile to outsiders.
After all, there were only so many kindhearted people on a single street. If one more vagrant appeared, everyone might receive one or two dollars less.
However, the Minister of the Security Department was somewhat fierce. Although people rejected him, they had never considered