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I just don't understand where they're going to sleep. Like how do you pass this law and not think "okay it's illegal, so when someone is sleeping outside we'll fine them/arrest them, then they'll go.....?". Like there is nowhere for them to go. Take it to the extreme and you arrest them all. But then you're paying 80k/yr to house them in jail? You have to give them healthcare and feed them... Is the goal is to spend 80k/yr on every homeless person? Public housing is a fraction of the cost. And if you didn't want to do that, you could just do nothing and let them suffer because you're a callous conservative. But criminalizing not having a home is the most expensive way to house, feed, and insure the homeless.
They never spend one second thinking about the outcome. Like a toddler throwing a fit about not wanting to go to sleep. You can't stay awake forever, but toddlers don't think into the future so they don't realise that they're going to go to sleep eventually regardless. That the only thing they can choose is the time.
To jail. Because it’s worth $40k/yr/person to build a system that kicks people when they’re down.