Measure A is a big tax hike that won’t solve homelessness in LA. Here’s what should be done instead.

Measure A is a big tax hike that won’t solve homelessness in LA. Here’s what should be done instead.

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“If not this, then how are we going to solve it?”

That’s the standard response to anyone who resists a demand to raise taxes. The question is typically framed as a choice between higher taxes and mass casualties.The latest tax-hike supporters bullying California’s exhausted taxpayers with this line is the collection of organizations and developers that critics have called “the homeless-industrial complex.”The term is a reference to President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 warning about the development of a “military-industrial complex,” which he described as “the conjunction of an immense military establishment and a permanent armaments industry of vast […]

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