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Re:Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @02:23PM (#21963296)
Seattle is suffering from self inflicted wounds.

The homeless crisis has nothing to do with cost of living (example, look at other extremely expensive cities around the world).

It’s because we took all of the mentally ill and drug addicted out of psychiatric asylums and threw them on the streets.

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Re:Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state by munificent on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:56AM (#21967130)
> look at other extremely expensive cities around the world

The opioid epidemic is a US-only problem, so looking at other world cities won't tell you much beyond "Yeah, Purdue pharma shouldn't have convinced doctors to get millions of people addicted to opioids."

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