Send them to detroit
Kudos to Utah for taking care of its homeless!
I don’t know how Utah financed this project, possibly federal funds involved, but the states uniquely have the government power to tax and spend for such things, such powers protected by the 10th Amendment.
On the other hand, the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend on behalf of the homeless, Congress’s power to lay taxes limited to the specific powers that the states have delegated to it via the Constitution. In other words, you will not find the terms poor, poverty, homeless in the Constitution.
Probably the main reason that corrupt federal lawmakers tax and spend on behalf of the poor is to win votes from economically struggling voters who likely have never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
I’m guessing that they inflated their “homeless” numbers to include responsible law-abiding families who were in some kind of transition during temporary economic hardship. Those kinds of people would benefit from “a home” but are not the people most of us think of when we consider the “homeless” problem — but most importantly it would APPEAR that a large percentage were helped. A lot of this comes from the liberals’ never ending bastardization of the English language.
Don’t Worry . . . Be Happy.
Who pays for the utilities, groceries and transportation? Or is that also “free?”
I have to pay my own bills. I’d love to be where I can live my life without having to figure out how to make ends meet.
It sounds too good to be true. Its like winning the lottery and ka-ching, one goes from rags to riches overnight.
The program doesn't have to be run stupidly, and it doesn't have to be automatic for everyone.
I think its a very good idea. First things, first, get them off the streets and out of jails and shelters.
The sheer cost alone - of tax money down the drain - of the present methods is a thundering support of this strategy.
Sometimes you have to deal with problems one step at a time. I think this is the right first step - at least conceptually. But like anything else, it has to be run right.
I know, I know, what, anywhere, is run right by the government? Still, what we now do is an abject failure.
They’d best get ready for the stampede of the other half of the deposed middle class then. The remainder of them will be unemployed and along shortly.
fail, you are rewarded.
succeed, and your success is legally confiscated from you to give to those who fail.
Sure. And the rising taxes on the few people left working will drive them to homelessness too.