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Old 10-21-2022, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Rainger99 View Post
The problem is that we have shelters for the homeless but many of them don’t want to go the shelters. And apparently, the government can’t force them to go to shelters because the homeless have rights.

If we had hungry people and they refused to go to food banks, what else can society do to feed them?

So I don’t know how to solve the problem. Maybe someone here has an idea.
There are solutions but they all involve lots and lots of money which would likely mean more and higher taxes. Thats ok with me as long as the solution is well-thought-out. First would be defining buckets to put each person/family in (like mentally ill, prior arrest record, etc). Define and implement a solution for each bucket and provide incentives to reward progress.
Not easy and certainly not cheap but just pushing these people to the next city/county/state does nothing to address the issue

Last edited by jdulej; 10-21-2022 at 04:56 PM. Reason: typos