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Originally Posted by Doctorfever

I have to wonder what is causing people to go down the path that leads to drug addiction. Stresses of day to day living? Maybe go to get highland get trapped into harder drugs? I really don’t know, but I think quite a few of them are or were close to poverty.

How about instead of increasing taxes to pay for different programs or facilities we try decreasing taxes. If we were to decease taxes for the lowest income earners maybe they could try and stay off the streets, afford housing, and contribute to society.

We seem to have gotten so caught up in how to try and increase taxes to help people with homelessness, maybe we can decrease taxes for them and let them help themselves. Probably an unpopular opinion, and it would definitely be a tactic that would not yield instant results by any means, but I think it could help in the long run.

So we lose out on some tax dollars from the lowest earners, society would benefit more from less stress on courts / police. We would be further ahead having more people working, contributing to society even if it didn’t yield a lot of tax revenue rather than being a burden on the system, costing more tax dollars.

If we see homelessness decreased, hopefully drug addiction would decrease as well. Just a thought.

They already have the lowest taxes. Some of them pay no taxes. You are literally describing the progressive taxation system we have right now.