"No more talking about the homeless"

[technomadness]

In short, the more you do for the homeless, the more there are.

This is actually an economic truism.

It depends on whether what you do is voluntary or not. People giving discretionary income or time to habitat for humanity are helping the homeless.

But when a government taxes people— even just “rich people” say who have homes, the first thing that does is increase the number of homeless— because the people who were just barely keeping their homes before the tax are pushed under by the tax. Secondly it drives up home prices and rents because now there is a tax to pay, which reduces available supply. Thirdly the money spent to “help the homeless” goes they the government bureaucracy and in the process much or most of it goes to overhead. There’s little accountability and a lot of people who get rich in the government bureaucracy, or from it.

This is why voluntary systems are much more effective than involuntary ones. Not to mention they are moral because they don’t violate human rights.



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