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There won't be improvement in spending and services until and unless the majority opinion is behind that. Believe it or not, but the majority opinion in the US

There won't be improvement in spending and services until and unless the majority opinion is behind that. Believe it or not, but the majority opinion in the US, especially among those who vote and given the unfair voting weights, was against even Obamacare at some point, much less to spend billions more on social welfare issues. And part of that is the idea that taxing the rich and the companies will hurt the lower income workers. Many people don't want to tax millionaires because they fancy becoming one soon. Good luck... Those attitudes seem to have changed, and that sounds like progress to me. Now get rid of the Cheater in Chief and vote for people who actually want to help the lower classes...

closeparen 8y ago
The big cities with substantial homeless populations are already dominated by left-leaning politics. It is not a question of getting more people to profess the correct beliefs, it is a question of converting those beliefs to specific actions despite their specific consequences. Like grandma losing her now-$2m house because its property tax bill reflects its value, or a shelter going in on your kid’s route to school. It’s a consensus opinion in SF that we ought to tax millionaires. But we’re unwilling to touch the asset class where the millions are actually stored. It’s a consensus opinion in SF that tax revenues should be used to help vulnerable populations stay in their communities. But “this is a community” is an ironclad argument that it’s an inappropriate location for any services or supportive housing.