“Increase social service programs so that we address the reason why they’re homeless and doing drugs in the first place.”
“No, that’s socialism and Fox News tells me I should be scared of that word!”
I don’t want to pay for other peoples’ healthcare so I’d rather pay a lot more for an oppressive police force that also takes away my civil rights.
While still paying for other people’s healthcare because that’s how insurance works.
Not to mention the societal costs that inevitably come from people being sick
The real “fiscal conservatives” are the “bleeding-heart liberals.”
Turns out, productivity soars when you have a well rested, well compensated, well treated, healthy, and housed people who don’t have constant stessors of literally every aspect of their lives nearly crumbling beneath them…
That is incompatible with growing wealth disparity. And the rich will always try to get richer.
The last panel reminded me of almost 20 years ago when the HPV vaccine first came available. Here in the US I remember the conservative backlash over it.
It wasn’t the same as today where conservatives reject the COVID vaccine because that’s how they prove to themselves that their freedom and bodily autonomy are intact or some shit. It was much more along the lines of how they like to see people suffer as long as they can tell themselves it was justified.
So it was basically “my daughter isn’t getting it because she doesn’t need it and isn’t a slut,” and of course they meant it in the way that anybody who IS a slut deserves to be punished with cervical cancer. Back then they didn’t always say the quiet part out loud.
Republicans / religious always treat women like shit. I have no idea why any woman votes R or goes to church. These people literarily think you’re less than them.
Drug use rooms?
Why not give all people living in a country homes to live in and be done with it?
If you believe that laws forbidding gambling, sale of liquor, sale of contraceptives, requiring definite closing hours, enforcing the Sabbath, or any such, are necessary to the welfare of your community, that is your right and I do not ask you to surrender your beliefs or give up your efforts to put over such laws. But remember that such laws are, at most, a preliminary step in doing away with the evils they indict. Moral evils can never be solved by anything as easy as passing laws alone. If you aid in passing such laws without bothering to follow through by digging in to the involved questions of sociology, economics, and psychology which underlie the causes of the evils you are gunning for, you will not only fail to correct the evils you sought to prohibit but will create a dozen new evils as well.
—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
Ladies and gents and everything in-between. The drugs are going to get used no matter what.
Just give them somewhere to do them.
The real anti homeless infrastructure is cheap or free housing
Let’s consider a tax on vacant homes. If landlords got charged market rent for vacancies the house prices would plummet.
Grace to second homeowners or set-length renovations.
Why grace to send homeowners? Tax those people, nobody needs to own a second house and pay some form of reduced taxes. Tax it at the same rate money on the bank is taxed (if not already) and if it is rented out, tax that rent income as well.
You’re right. It should be all 2+ homeowners. I gave the concession because my target is the ultra rich and the rich, not just the boomers that bought at the right time and have holiday homes.
In my head I could see if we all pushed for 2+ homes instead of 3+ homes then the result would be only to tax the second home and not the 3rd, 4th, etc.
Although the best result would be to tax the 2+, i need to attack the rich and ultra rich right now. Those fuckers are really ruining it for the rest of us
If you really want to tax the rich you need to fix the loaning system in the US and stop the normalisation of taking loans for everything is part of that. You don’t need a 30.000$ car if you can only afford it with a lone a 5000$ car will be fine etc
Why not both
How is taxing 3% of inventory going to make prices “plummet”?
Sorry, I never mentioned USA. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-vacant-homes-are-there-in-the-us/ Its about 10%.
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Switzerland cleaned up their drug problem.
How?
They built government run facilities for drug addicts and the dosages are controlled by medical staff. The result, decreases in crime, over doses, emergency medical care, and garbage left by junkies. The USA and their pointless War on Drugs is a fucking scam because the problem is the demand for illegal drugs.
That’s not what the word scam means.
Scam; a dishonest scheme, a fraud.
That’s exactly what it means.
