Supreme Court to hear Grants Pass homeless case April 22nd - eviltoast

“Martin v. Boise and Grants Pass v. Johnson have prevented cities from punishing people for sleeping in public spaces when they have nowhere else to go.”

  • sploosh@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    for people who aren’t paying taxes to fund it.

    Yeah, no fucking shit man. Homeless people don’t have the money to pay for things. Everyone has the right to exist and it’s entirely reasonable to collect taxes and use them to pay for things that are a net benefit to everyone, like sanitation services for homeless people. Unless you want to help dismantle the entire system that allows money to get funneled into the hands of a few people who then hoard it like dragons, leaving everyone else to make do collectively on the ever-shrinking fraction of the GDP that’s left, how about you grow some empathy and punch up instead of down?