By making the fact that they don’t have a roof over their head a crime.
A felony now in Tennessee.
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Well, that certainly was not a clever deflection. 
Not a deflection.
Making some people’s lack of housing a crime and then charging them for their imprisonment…
Yeah…. Cool.
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We already do. Libs created this mess, let them deal with it.
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What is the Conservative solution to the problem?
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I hear ya. In many ways it has been the success of blue cities with rapidly rising rents and housing prices pushing the marginal into homelessness due to lack of affordability. Add that to mental health/substance abuse/criminality issues and a portion of folks are not going to make it on the game of housing musical chairs.
However, the taxpayer base of our successful blue cities are largely paying for everything- military, social security, medicare, infrastructure.
But perhaps thats harder to see.
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Argle bargle Republicans!!! 
It is literally cheaper to rent apartments for the homeless than it is to jail them
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Awesome. Republican state exporting their problem to a Democratic state. Then, complain about Dems. Totally sustainable.
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More of this:
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They’ll trash them in a month.
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Not if you put them on a work gang.
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How sweet of you to confiscate other people’s hard earned paychecks and them redistribute them as you please.
You are the very kind why our Constitution requires any direct tax to be apportioned among the states.
JWK
If, by calling a tax indirect when it is essentially direct, the rule of protection [apportionment] could be frittered away, one of the great landmarks defining the boundary between the nation and the states of which it is composed, would have disappeared, and with it one of the bulwarks of private rights and private property. POLLOCK v. FARMERS’ LOAN & TRUST CO., 157 U.S. 429 (1895) JUSTICE FULLER
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Housing the homeless isn’t a solution, it’s a way to make the problem worse. The vast majority need mental health care. Sticking a bunch of mentally disturbed people into houses next to each other will create a whole new set of issues. This isn’t something we can throw tax payer dollars at to fix, it’s going to take a real solution and a good portion of that solution is realizing that a lot of these people don’t want your help.
How dare we require the able bodied to pay for their room and board.
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Nope. They’d turn into tiny crack houses with rape rooms real quick.
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It’s not our job to pay for EITHER. We currently spend $4 Trillion a year on social programs. $1.6 Trillion on Heath and Human services. $1.4 Trillion on SS. Another ~$1 Trillion spent by states on welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, etc. Break that out to per person spending and we find out that we’re spending $11,765 for every man, woman and child in this country on welfare. ENOUGH IS EFRIGGINNOUGH. Think about the fraud and waste in that spending. Break out the Social Security and the new amount hits $2.6 Trillion. That’s $7,650 for every man, woman and child in spending. Keep in mind, that doesn’t even include the tax CREDITS granted to the lower income. They often get back FAR more than they paid in.
NOT ONE MORE DIME in increased spending to fight poverty. It’s NOT WORKING. How about instead, we start cutting this funding and stop making it profitable to pretend you’re poor in this country. How many families are living together and taking payments from government such as WIC and housing assistance because they’re not married? “Single mom” gets a LOT of funding and some aren’t so single.
That’s the truth as proven over and over and over. It’s stunning to me that we’ve allowed this crap to go on this long. TRILLIONS of hard earned tax payer dollars flushed down the toilet and here we are, still hearing whining about the poor.
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Jail’s a good option. Three hots and a cot until they get tired of that city that locks down their drug use and move on to a more liberal city. And there’s the rub. “Not in my back yard!”
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I have no problem with that but what percentage of the homeless are “able bodied”?
