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You seem to think that there are Elon Musks in every city that can be taxed and won’t be affected.
Homeless don’t just congregate in neighborhoods with the ultra wealthy who have lots of money to throw around. The reality is they live everywhere including blue collar and middle class cities and suburbs. Most of whom live paycheck to paycheck. When you talk about funding homeless shelters this is whom you are taking money from. Money that could go to their kids schools, the roads they drive on, the parks they visit.
Please feel free to throw yourself on the pyre of your own platitudes. But don’t expect others to follow.
Yes, homeless are normally forcefully pushed out of wealthy areas, because they interrupt scenic views of places where the wealthy isolate themselves from the horrors they cause.
And shelters should be funded on the federal level, from a progressive tax, not by municipalities.