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In Washington, home of the Microsoft Millionaire every-fucking-where, oddly enough has no state income tax.
But oddly enough it has a huge problem with unhoused people.
Out of curiosity, when did "the homeless" become "unhoused people"? I'm just beginning to notice this shift in language. Has the word homeless become derogatory?
The word home has a lot of subtext attached to it, a lot of it relating to feelings of belonging, so I think the idea is to make a phrase that doesn't have a little bit of subtext implying they don't belong anywhere. Houseless would accomplish a similar thing but unhoused seems to be the result of that line of thought.
Thanks, that makes sense. I'm often suspicious of new euphemisms that make people feel like a problem is less of a problem than it really is. I'm all for more accurate language.
Anytime, I feel like it's probably one of those things that's going to be most noticed by the people who are called unhoused instead, though I'm certain not everyone will like it the same amount or even at all.
So does California and many other states with state income tax? Is there evidence of a correlation between state income tax and unhoused people?
No there isn't, it's just idiots who think more taxes will magically fix everything...they think new taxes won't have the rich not paying it. When in reality, new taxes will just have the same people who pay now, paying more. The rich aren't going to start paying the new taxes anyways.
I'm pretty sure that there is no correlation between zero income tax and massive unhouse population and social issues. /s
I'm honestly curious on that, I'm in Florida and tripping over homeless people.