“If not this, then how are we going to solve it?”
That’s the standard response to anyone who resists a demand to raise taxes. The question is typically framed as a choice between higher taxes and mass casualties.
The latest tax-hike supporters bullying California’s exhausted taxpayers with this line is the collection of organizations and developers that critics have called “the homeless-industrial complex.”
The term is a reference to President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 warning...