In the small town of Sheridan, Wyoming mostly in the summer you can pull into town and see a homeless person standing under the bridge of exit 20 holding up a sign asking for a ride to another town or sitting across the street from taco bell asking for money because they have none and they need to get their dog food. In the article “Million-Dollar Murray” it discusses how to help the homeless and end homelessness all together. Morally many people think it is the correct thing to do but, do they really deserve it? It isn’t fair to the taxpayers, they get free apartments, and they don’t give back to society for helping them.
Helping the homeless isn’t fair to taxpayers because their money is going to waste on hospital bills and to jails because …show more content…
They gave an apartment to a man in his 20’s one time, he had cirrhosis of the liver. The article states, “The first place we had, he brought over all his friends, and they partied and trashed the place and broke a window. Then we gave him another apartment, and he did the same thing.” These apartments shouldn’t even be given to the homeless, morally it would be right to give them to a low income family that are living a month to month on a paycheck. This way they could save up their money and be able to pay their bills each month. If they had free housing they could also put money into a savings account to buy a home of their own in the …show more content…
Do they thank a random person on the street for aiding the help they receive? No they only thank someone when that person gives them money from their pocket and sometimes they don’t even thank the person. I mean if they do get a job that may be considered giving back because now they have to pay taxes but they should have to do more like community service or volunteering to repay society for helping them.
There is homelessness all over morally it isn’t right to help the homeless for multiple reasons such as it isn’t fair to the tax payers, they get free housing that is would be more deserving to a low-income family, and because they don’t give back to society. Ending homelessness isn’t obtainable because there are so many of them. There is no point to keep funding the homeless when there is no way to end
Helping the homeless isn’t fair to taxpayers because their money is going to waste on hospital bills and to jails because …show more content…
They gave an apartment to a man in his 20’s one time, he had cirrhosis of the liver. The article states, “The first place we had, he brought over all his friends, and they partied and trashed the place and broke a window. Then we gave him another apartment, and he did the same thing.” These apartments shouldn’t even be given to the homeless, morally it would be right to give them to a low income family that are living a month to month on a paycheck. This way they could save up their money and be able to pay their bills each month. If they had free housing they could also put money into a savings account to buy a home of their own in the …show more content…
Do they thank a random person on the street for aiding the help they receive? No they only thank someone when that person gives them money from their pocket and sometimes they don’t even thank the person. I mean if they do get a job that may be considered giving back because now they have to pay taxes but they should have to do more like community service or volunteering to repay society for helping them.
There is homelessness all over morally it isn’t right to help the homeless for multiple reasons such as it isn’t fair to the tax payers, they get free housing that is would be more deserving to a low-income family, and because they don’t give back to society. Ending homelessness isn’t obtainable because there are so many of them. There is no point to keep funding the homeless when there is no way to end