Posted on 10/22/2024 7:37:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Voters in Los Angeles are expressing skepticism of Measure A, a ballot initiative that would raise sales taxes in the county to provide more services to the homeless, expanding Measure H, which was passed by referendum in 2017.
Measure H raised sales taxes by a quarter of a percent — and the homeless population kept rising. That rise was driven by a variety of factors, but access to generous services — like hotel rooms — may have been one of them.
While opinion polls suggest that support for Measure A is near 50%, that is far lower than the nearly 70% support Measure H received in 2017, when the electorate was more optimistic about the effect of spending on homelessness.
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you get the government you deserve, choke on it.
Sock it to them. They voted for the mess they created
Pay more sales tax because the city doesn’t collect sales taxes on all of the merchandise stolen by the homeless. As if giving homeless people the privilege of taking up to 900 dollars worth of free stuff for each trip into a store and letting them live on the street for free and also letting them have however many bicycles they can steal without any consequences were not helpful enough. Yeah let’s help them some more. Some politicians will get to say they worked hard to help the homeless and they get more money to spend on whatever they want.
Do statements like this ever get audited?
How do they determine that the services are in fact improved?
Who does the auditing? The taxpayers?
If the taxing authority fails the audit, are the increased taxes refunded? Is the tax increase rescinded?
Californians would be INSANE to vote for higher taxes on themselves
they are already forced to pay the highest taxes in USA (or nearly so, there are a couple additional candidates for this Democratic/Progressive “honor”)
and Californians get some of the worst and some of the most corrupt public “services” in America
and increasingly more and more homeless as California’s politicans reward poor people from all over the world to flock to the streets of LA and San Fransicko
It would be wiser to offer each homeless person a one-way ticket out of the state, and $10,000 in cash to never return to California or go to prison for the remainder of your life.
Are they too stupid to not realize that mores taxes equates to more homeless. I also believe that the money is really for Illegals.
Astonishing. Simply astonishing. Though I am sure my putrid Blue State is not far behind.
In my state, it is because of the way they have perverted and corrupted the electoral process from top to bottom, and side to side, to ensure very few or no conservatives actually make it into office. There are plenty of conservatives in this state, I know from personal experience.
I have no doubt it is the same in California, and my heart goes out to those Conservatives behind enemy lines.
Where did all these millions of dollars from the previous tax hike go?? Who exactly got this money??
I’m voting NO down the line on all these “propositions” except for 36 which will stiffen penalties on theft and other crimes.
A little late, isn’t it?
Not everyone who would want to can live in a state which has wonderful weather.
Why would people stay in Utica, NY if California was affordable to all?
We saw what happened with the first 24 billion for the homeless…
If you fund it, they will come.
There was an article/video quite a few months ago about Rhode Island’s approach to their homeless situation, which was basically treat the underlying addictions. I wish I bookmarked it.
If any voter thinks that this money is going to get into the hands of the homeless - and not be a slush fund to pay Homeless activists and fund programs for illegals or some other city politician’s slush fund - I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Its great for the rest of the country.
NEVER FEED FERAL CATS:
ALL YOU GET IS MORE FERAL CATS
Back in April the L.A. Times reported that Los Angeles had spent 20 on homelessness without tracking where it went or whether it accomplished anything.
20 billion
The US is basically 50 separate mostly sovereign nations. Some of those nations have gone off the deep end. They’re just not right on the head.
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