Call me a chud, there's no way I believe this
About 2% of the total went to alcohol, cigarettes and drug expenses
Any homeless camp on the sidewalk with open drug use definitely has more than $15/mo spend on drugs, alchy, and cigs. Isn't a pack of cigs in the west coast like $10 for a single pack alone?
I think a lot of productive hardworking people's money has been spent on propaganda whose sole intention is to ensure that people equate homeless people to "mentally ill drug addicts" rather than, say, "private equity real estate buyup refugees"
Is private equity in the fentalnyl business and are we really back pedaling so hard we are going to ignore mental health issues and homelessness?
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This was on stupidpol a while back, the trick was they pre-selected the people they gave it to to ensure they only picked people who weren't drug addicts. Like they filtered through a list of homeless people, found the 1 or 2 out of a thousand who were hard working single mothers who couldn't pay the rent, and just used those
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They did the same here in Canada several times, and yeah they made it extremely hyperspecific so only people that recently got homeless and were living with their parents or friends qualified.
Something like no severe mental conditions, no drug history, and must have a mailing address or whatever. Kinda like how China defines their homelessness as "doesn't exist".
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I see nothing wrong with this
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I mean more money always means better life doesnt it? At least they got more money for more drugs, which is better than less drugs, right?
Yeah no way this is true tho lol
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You see, if you pay their rent and their rent money goes straight to heroin instead, then technically you didn't pay for their heroin.
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Some guy in the thread says he's been homeless 2,000 days and doesn't do drugs or drink
what a bum at least enjoy your squalor
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All the Single Room Occupancies were shut down by speculation on real estate. Cheap neet caves and hobo nests for 80 bucks a month priced out by hipsters and yuppies.
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cage apartments and trailer parks are inhumane it's much better if poors have to live in literal tents on the street.
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Income inequality has plummeted since 2019 due to the tight labor market. Weirdly, the fentanyl zombies keep multiplying. What gives?
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Effective tax rate is basically flat anyway. Nobody was paying 91 percent
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Could they name a single person paying even 80% of their income in federal taxes back then? I hear this quoted all the time but they don't say they Kennedys or Roosevelts had their net incomes cut to 20% of their gross
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Let's say, hypothetically, you've been a naughty child even, ok, and if you were a naughty child you would also be waging war on Christmas? Then hypothetically speaking you would be on my little Naughty List. Now let's say that you're also a non-Christian child, now that we've established you're both a bad child and non-Christian child, then I believe you'd agree with me when I say that you deserve a stocking full of coal, am I not correct? A bad child deserves a stocking full of coal and as I am Father Christmas, you are my child, so I am the one who must provide punishment.
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The top comment: 2k days of homelessness. Dumbass claims to not be a junkie (highly ). I hope that r-slur understands that it's actually more pathetic to be homeless and NOT be addicted to drugs.
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