@EskSF that is not what I said, CA taxes are the most progressive in the country, but they run through the state govt not the municipal govt
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @EskSF
CA has to rely on regressive taxes (sales) and volatile taxes (cap gains) bc boomers straightjacketed the govt.
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So you say. But it's still astounding we need a regressive tax to fund homeless and transit users in a $9.6B budget.
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it is astounding isn't it? https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/p59.pdf …
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such a mystery that homelessness started appearing at scale in the early 1980s after some people made some choices about
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homelessness grew in US because of policies to shutter abusive mental health institutions and not having alternative.
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de-institutionalization pre-dated appearance of homeless by two decades under Pat Brown http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all …
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Replying to @occupytheport @EskSF
it was certainly pt of it, but it started happening in the early 1960s.pic.twitter.com/znHHY4ooG5
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @EskSF
ah, but what was defined as "mental illness" in 1950's versus later years and Ina illy to care for oneself. Vietnam?
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