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yeah honestly I don't really care if nonviolent people do drugs in the open. I want to get those people help, and I vote for policies that will help them. Like upzoning the ENTIRE city so people can actually build housing so not only the rich can afford to live here. However, if someone is violent they should go to jail. Give them help too, and pass laws so that once they are rehabilitated they can find jobs, but our current system is completely wrong.

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But why should someone who spent $1 million+ on a house have to suffer a drop on the value of their property for this? It would be a serious reduction of their net worth, far more than any proposed tax to help the poor could ask for and realistically be passed.

Because people are suffering and its the right thing to do.

Forcing one group of people to pay dearly for the benefit of another group, who did not cause their ills, and actually have done a great deal to help, through paying taxes that has already gone towards their welfare, is definitely not the right thing to do.

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