Posted on 05/08/2026 5:10:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
Steve Hilton offers a deeply CONTROVERSIAL solution to California's homelessness epidemic:
"Enforce the law."
Living with rampant homelessness, like all crime, is a choice.
SOURCE: https://x.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2052536301144986112
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I’ve been thinking in this sort of direction for awhile now.
Yes, we would have to build a lot of prisons. At least for awhile. But we used to have a High Trust society. Leave your keys in your car. No one is going to take it. Don’t lock your front door. No one will burglarize you. Vote for politicians of either party — they both mean well, they just propose different solutions.
Our whole society today is just a massive scam on every level. Corruption is everywhere I look, and it’s just one big joke, with criminals doing what they want, while the government stomps on law-abiding taxpayers.
The solution?
Lock up all the bad people. All of them. Teach people that being a good, law-abiding person is the only way to behave. Step out of line, and you go to prison. Say it like you mean it. And make sure the politicians understand it.
Make Methodone co-pays 1/100th of the HUD one-bedroom fair market rent.
Junkies will shun NYC & SF.
If you live in a tent or similar housing; you get removed from the Section 8 waiting list.
Add 10% of the area HUD fair market rent to what Section 8 households pay.
Some folks will then choose to live in less costly cities.
As W.Shakespere said “First you kill all the lawyers!”
Outlaw cannabis sales within 50 miles of any city, town or village with a homeless problem.
Add 2 cents per cigarette to the federal cigarette tax in such areas.
Add 1 cent per 10ml to the federal wine tax in such areas.
I think what they are finding is that these “homeless” actually have places to stay but it’s easier to be near the drugs.
“Lock up all the bad people.”
Locking up people is expensive. It should be a last resort.
Give non-habitual misdemeanor offenders an option to serve time in penalty time rooms, say 100 hours in 60 days, the exact amounts set by the magistrate, with at least 20 hours in the first seven full days after arrest. Offenders could still retain an honest job.
With the penalty time room system, there would be no trials, no public defender, board or medical costs.
Another option is to have offenders stand on a colored concrete slab near the courthouse for say 50 hours in 60 days, with at least 10 hours in the first seven full days after arrest.
Dump them on Alcatraz Island.
We have ways had vagabonds and wanderers that moved from place to place. Difference now is it is a career choice and liberals support it. Here in Eastern Oregon we use to,get people who would camp out a week or two and leave. Now, they camp out on public land for months. Years even. They completely trash the place. Stolen shopping carts, propane tanks, car batteries, basically anything not nailed down. And the cops do nothing. And if, by chance, some daring politician orders the camp dismantled it will cost hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to clean it up. If they weren’t such disgusting filthy junkies people wouldn’t ind. but they are criminal drug addicts and need to be treated as such.
Yeah but what happens when folks give up the booze and smokes because of the taxes?
Forty cents more for a pack and 75 cents more for 750ml aren’t budget shattering.
The add-ons send a signal, find a cheaper place to mooch so productive people can find affordable housing.
Never smoked but I'm sure cigarettes aren't cheap.
"Enforce the law."
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