2007-01-10 10:00:04 · 6 answers · asked by AMERICANO 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Yes, the homeless cost tax payer money.
The most obvious cost is in emergency health care and burial services.
Occasionally homeless people will commit crimes, sometimes so they can be sent to jail or even prison to eat or be sheltered.
Sending a person to jail is much more expensive than supporting a private social services organization or a homeless shelter.
On top of that, every non-productive person not only drains the system, it costs the system by not contributing to the GNP. 744,000 people at 15K earnings each would contribute $11,160,000,000 dollars to the GNP, per year. This is a minimum of $1,116,000,000 per year in tax income such as sales taxes, social security, etc.
If it costs $25,000 dollars per homeless person to convert them into productive people the tax pay off takes 17 years, after that the money spent is returned.
If we help a 30 year old homeless person find a job and support themselves for 35 years we double the investment and add over half a million dollars to the GNP. This does not include the savings in social services.
This means that the hidden cost of social services for the poor and homeless is in the bureaucratic waste of human and financial resources.
Just an FYI: Private social services organizations are about 5 times as efficient as publicly supported organizations and help about ten times as many people.
2007-01-10 10:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We all cost each other money. We pay taxes to live in this beautiful country. Now, I'm not bagging on homeless or the undocumented, but they do cost us more money than they should. That is why I am PRO GUEST WORKER PROGRAM. That's for all the haters out there. With this there will be more money to have programs for the unfortunate people who do not have homes to get help with getting a job and a home. Peace.
2007-01-10 18:36:35 · answer #2 · answered by xcelix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because unlike undocumented workers the homeless get no help
2007-01-10 21:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by billc4u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah we have to cleanup after their filth just like the illegals
2007-01-10 18:25:08 · answer #4 · answered by asszuviel 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, they are also not breaking the law just by being alive either.
2007-01-10 18:37:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
take pitty for one day you'll be like them.
2007-01-10 18:24:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋