What to do with the homeless?
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I'll go against what a lot of people do, probably even plenty here, but to me...that would be someone who bought something they can't afford. They should have saved a couple years, roughing it, put 200K down, bought a 750K house, and had plans to pay it off within 15 years.
I’m in Colorado Springs and they are terrible here too. Locals say there is a bus that takes them from Denver and drops them off here for a free meal, and then leave them here. Not sure how true that is , but they are terrible in Denver and Colorado Springs!
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No kidding. Can buy a one way ticket to liberal paradise. Then lay around on the beach all day. They were thick on Oahu.
Still are.
Super liberal, hated that place.
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You honestly can't expect the homeless to learn about all of the tax credits they're entitled to.
Lol check your fun math. You pay out 1m plus 800k equals 1.8m. Would love to see how much your capital gains tax would be on a 2.2m sale. Any buyer is going to pass on a 30 year house when they can build something brand new for cheaper.
How much property taxes are you paying on your 2.2m house? It's all going toward extravagant government purchases. You act like these governments are really careful about taxpayer money.
Go gather up the homeless and tell them to put down the booze and join you at the computer lab.
No more than you can expect the government to search them out and hand them a refund check.
I'd split them into two camps. The ones using government resources and begging go to labor camps. The one who use no government resources, that includes never going to a hospital and leaving the bill to rest of us, they can continue their homeless bliss.
They search out all those that don't pay taxes. Why can't they hand out refund checks?
I live in Washington state and we're leading the pack on stupid. Imagine this, you give someone more and more yet don't expect others to hear about the freebeis extravaganza and not move in in hoards.
My plan would be pack them up and distribute them equally in to each country that has illegals rushing into the USA. Like a repayment system. You send us yer trash, we have trash of our own. One big issue is trying to figure out the mental health part of the crisis.
My plan would be pack them up and distribute them equally in to each country that has illegals rushing into the USA. Like a repayment system. You send us yer trash, we have trash of our own. One big issue is trying to figure out the mental health part of the crisis.
$2,200,000 minus the $1,000,000 purchase price leaves you $1,200,000 then you get a $500,000 exemption if your married and lived there 2 years. Gets you down to $700,000 taxable (assuming you did no upgrades to the house) at 20% or $140,000 in federal tax
And any buyer comment is not true, house on the other side of my neighborhood sold for 1.7 million while the lots next to it are for sale. Some people just dont want to deal with building.
Although I have noticed lately that there are more people sleeping on the street, there are options here for the homeless. If you just want to do your drugs and live how you want, I'm not sure what can be done. If you truly need help, want to work, and not do drugs, there are options. We have a facility here that can support 200 people, provide them with sleeping quarters, and will find you work. It's the Good Samaritan Mission. They rely 100% on donations. They do not receive money from the government, so they aren't tied down to governmental bs. It's like it's own little city. They even have a little store where you can shop for a variety of things.
They find work for some of the residents and will drive them to the job. For any medical and dental needs, there are several places that provide free or reduced services. You cannot be on drugs to get these services. The only problem is the limited number of people that can stay there. When I donate, my money always goes to Good Sam first, with the medical providers being second choice. Every November, we have a one day donation to charitable organizations which are matched by other organizations. This is a good day to donate because your money is doubled.
We also have a food trailer which goes around and feeds the hungry and another facility that just feeds the homeless, no strings attached.
A Home for the Homeless...
I know this doesn't solve all of the problems, but it puts a good dent in ours. As Christians, we are commanded to help the poor.
They find work for some of the residents and will drive them to the job. For any medical and dental needs, there are several places that provide free or reduced services. You cannot be on drugs to get these services. The only problem is the limited number of people that can stay there. When I donate, my money always goes to Good Sam first, with the medical providers being second choice. Every November, we have a one day donation to charitable organizations which are matched by other organizations. This is a good day to donate because your money is doubled.
We also have a food trailer which goes around and feeds the hungry and another facility that just feeds the homeless, no strings attached.
A Home for the Homeless...
I know this doesn't solve all of the problems, but it puts a good dent in ours. As Christians, we are commanded to help the poor.
Those food trucks that feed the homeless often create bad side effects that I dont think the services realize. At my old shop we had a Catholic services behind us and they had a food truck that parked across the street in a parking lot to feed the homeless every Tuesday. They fed the homeless but then they also attracted all the scumbag druggies who would come for the free meal on their bicycles and then stay for the theft by preying on the local businesses.
Cant tell you how many times we went toe to toe with these actual gangs full of tweakers on bikes. It got to the point where we would just walk out on the lot with ARs out if they were cruising the area scoping it out. They were by far the worst to deal with and they still managed to break in and steal tons of stuff.
Cant tell you how many times we went toe to toe with these actual gangs full of tweakers on bikes. It got to the point where we would just walk out on the lot with ARs out if they were cruising the area scoping it out. They were by far the worst to deal with and they still managed to break in and steal tons of stuff.
800k of interest is a cash outflow. Throw in property taxes and PMI fees and you pay way more to the bank and city hall than you paid for the house.
They don't have to charge people these types of fees, but they get away with it.
If people would stop having kids like Twisted2V we probably wouldn’t have so much homelessness.
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Yup I missed this in my late night math.
However you continue to overlook the fact that the owner of the home gets the benefit of LIVING IN IT for 30 years. Also, the bank has property taxes, employment taxes, payroll for employees, income tax, and other costs to run the business... such as its own borrowing costs for the money it's lending out.
Am I super happy about everything the government spends money on? Hell no! Plenty actually is 100% against what I'd do if I were dictator for life. That's just life. Deal with it. I'm about to write a check to the IRS for $20k for my 4th quarter estimated taxes. Am I happy? On one hand, yes! I'm super happy that I pay more in income tax now than I made in an entire year the year I met my wife. On the other, no! I'd love to have that tax money to spend on myself and my kids.
I've been working 16-18 hour days, 7 days a week for the past 4 months building my own company. Atlas hasn't shrugged yet...
WTF are you talking about? The people you're talking about that they search out are employed, receive a W-2, and therefore, are on the radar of the IRS. They most certainly do NOT search out homeless people that have no job and therefore owe no taxes.
I believe that almost all homeless people arrive at their state because of a mental condition. If a normal person had everything ripped away from him, he would still have a network of friends and family that would at least give him a place to stay while he got back on his feet. You have to have major issues to alienate everyone in your family and all of your friends. Once upon a time, we put people into institutions to try to help them. The facilities and treatments were often bunk, but we tried. Now we let them roam the streets even though we have a much better grasp on how to best help them.
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