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As a local, would you accept a regional sales tax increase of 1% if it paid for real housing and counseling services for the residents of the camp?
by floatingatoll 9y ago
As a local, would you accept a regional sales tax increase of 1% if it paid for real housing and counseling services for the residents of the camp?
- NedIsakoff 9y agoYes if the housing and services are equally distributed in all the neighborhoods. Each region/city should host an proportional number of homeless.
- koolba 9y ago> Each region/city should host an proportional number of homeless. And what if they don’t and simply bus their homeless out of town to yours[1]? Implementing something like that intra-State would be hard enough. Doing it across States is impossible without the Federal government running it and I doubt that’d ever happen. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/12/22/25650858/how-wealthy-american-cities-are-busing-homeless-people-to-poorer-areas https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/12/22/25650858/how-wea...
- NedIsakoff 9y agoThen our town will spend our 1% busing them back to where they came from. The issue is that why should my town or city take them in when town or city X isn't.
- krageon 9y agoBecause it's the right thing to do? I don't understand why this needs to devolve into an "us vs them" scenario that ends up with the US growing their literal tent slums.
- stmfreak 9y agoNo.
- kaster002 9y agoHow about if you look at it the same way we look at say.. insurance? Would you pay the same amount to remove the perceived risk such a tent city poses you and your family?. I guess that's why people don't want these tent cities around?. My point beeing. Cause if the problem isn't taken care of your going to pay at least that in lesser house valuation and insurance costs...