How do you get less of something? Tax it.
How do you get more of something? Subsidize it.
Inner city bleeding heart liberals just can’t grasp the fact that handing these folks money, food or supplies only extends their meager existence under the bridge...
But they get to feel like they’re a good person for a few minutes - at least until they forget they did it, so they can do it again.
Good points.
Giving a homeless person food is just a short lived Bandaid to their real problem, which may be mental disease.
When you get right down to it the liberals would prefer that these people stay under the bridge and out of the “nice” neighborhoods, just sol long as they can be dragged out to vote when appropriate.
I will not dispute your reasoning, but I have a sometimes different attitude:
To me, this is just more: Citizens cannot be trusted to take the initiative on anything. Only acknowledged Federal or approved NGOs may be trusted to do anything in public society.
The truth is those NGOs are pretty much all flaming leftist institutions - which is why the Feds are willing to let them act at all.
If I, a private citizen, feel an impulse of mercy and grace toward a particular person at a particular time, I will act on it, no matter what the government or anyone else thinks.