> By spending more on education you may spend less on homeless right now but you can prevent people from becoming homeless. I'm not comparing against education

> By spending more on education you may spend less on homeless right now but you can prevent people from becoming homeless. I'm not comparing against education with money for the homeless, specifically. It was just an example that money can be spent on other things we value, and we have to decide what we value more. There's not way around it - you're either spending money on education, or on something else (or just reducing taxes). Of course if you can show that education causes less homelessness, that makes it an obvious "win". (Though I think that you're not grappling with Bryan Caplan's actual argument.) > And on top of that, you can also reform how homelessness works in your country. In Germany, having a home is a fundamental right, why is it not in America? If the assumption is that I'm from the US, I'm not. But solving homelessnes is kind of besides the point I was making anyway :)