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Well at least they cleaned up the area, though it'll just be overrun next week when the international dignitaries leave and it all goes back to normal
Old joke:
Politician 1: We should half the homeless people in our city!
Politician 2: Great idea! Do we cut them in half horizontally or vertically?
I'm as liberal as the next guy, and i know this will definitely not be a popular opinion here, but honestly we need to stop giving homeless people a free pass and I'm fucking serious. A lot of these people do it only because they can get away with it. They need to know that what they are doing isn't OK. It's not the answer, there really isn't a single answer, but we also can't just keep enabling them. I say this as a person with a homeless meth addict sister, a brother in law who's been on drugs his whole life and is currently in section 8, and a sister in law who got her shit together after being a homeless addict. I also have family who have volunteered full time at shelters and food banks
Most of these homeless there are either addicts or severely mentally ill and need help. Of course I'm just referring to the addicts here, the mentally ill need help. Homeless families down on their luck aren't included here, they typically know where support is and are using it.
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Getting ready for the Bell Riots
Been wondering, who benefits from all the inflationary costs to living. Is it mainly wall Street, or banks? I'm a home owner, and while my home is worth more, it's not like I have more money, cause everywhere is expensive.
Aren't property taxes tied to the value of the house? Expensive houses bring more tax dollars to the government.
Nah, it's based on the appraised value, which for taxes is always only a fraction of the market value and doesn't change unless the city does a new appraisal. For instance my house is worth over $200k and the appraised value is something like $70k I'm not an outlier, everyone's house is appraised like this.
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