Remember that the homeless are US Citizens too. Our society, as most industrial societies still do, used to provide for the homeless with public housing, provide for the addicted with something other than wholesale incarceration and for the mentally with the appropriate level of care. We used to recognize that all citizens have constitutional rights. Also note that our democratically elected state legislature created the means for the governments of all counties to enact this supportive tax without a vote of county residents, recognizing that this is humanitarian crises. Note too that including the written and spoken comments there were at least 150 comments in support and a handful against. No more than 12 were from organizations, the rest from concerned individuals. If an individual citizen earns $80,000 a year and has disposable taxable expenditures of $24,000 (30% of income), then the tax would be $24.00 a year. Everyone that is financially unable to spend $24.00 annually to support these impacted citizens please raise your hand. Of course if your income is $50,000 a year, using the same formula, then the tax is $15.00 a year, three lattes. Incidentally, if a person is unable to pay this tax there is a mechanism to allow then to be exempted written into the law. End of rant.
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