Re:Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimi...
by RestlessMind on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:51PM
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> a lack of a social safety net
That is so easy to disprove. SF spends 1.1B on homelessness (more than 50K per homeless person). Federal government spends 6-700B on medicaid (health services for poor). California's 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs.
Maybe, you can complain that that spending is "inefficient", but that becomes a political barb-trading after that.
That is so easy to disprove. SF spends 1.1B on homelessness (more than 50K per homeless person). Federal government spends 6-700B on medicaid (health services for poor). California's 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs.
Maybe, you can complain that that spending is "inefficient", but that becomes a political barb-trading after that.