alt Hacker NewsMore taxes should solve that.
Read somewhere that SF spends roughly 50k$-80k$ per homeless person per year.
Taxing more doesn't solve a massively inefficient system at it's core. Just like US education, we spend more than any country on earth, why is it still bad?
Answering that question with a "if only we had more money" is a really poor argument. The CA tax fundamentals are bad, pooring more cash onto the fire will not fix that.
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peab • yesterday at 10:44 PM
I think it's hitting 96k per homeless person a year now. But yes, it's the tax system's fault.
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edoceo • yesterday at 10:23 PM
If money isn't solving the problem, you're just not using enough.
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Sure. A lot of that money doesn't even make it to intended recipients because of corporate welfare and inefficiencies in government.
https://youtu.be/YKAD7l1a9hc
In addition, there should probably be changes to laws/regulations to address companies that exploit the poorest.
https://youtu.be/U9Rls-_7LdQ
And, many people who are poor have persistent mental/physical disabilities, so part of that spending is because many of these people have it the hardest.
With that said, we could likely fix all of these things and significantly unequal wealth distribution would still result in a lot of poverty.