Solving Problems Would Turn Off Public Money
What do out-of-control immigration across the southern border and homelessness in San Francisco have in common? Answer: both are extremely profitable.
A Mexican friend who is well-informed about the situation on the southern border has reason to believe the flow of illegal immigrants is directed by the Mexican mafia, which demands payment of over $10,000 from each illegal that makes the crossing.
He strongly suspects the mafia is giving a cut of this enormously profitable business to U.S. government officials who are turning a blind eye to it.
A similar racket is operating in San Francisco with respect to its large homeless population. According to Tony Hall, a former supervisor from San Francisco, the city now has an annual budget of $15 billion even though it struggles to provide basic services.
As he explained in a recent Epoch Times interview:
A third of downtown is empty. Businesses are closing, the revenue has gone down, but the budget keeps going up. It’s now almost $15 billion.
I’ll tell you how it happens. It is from the usage of nonprofits. Nonprofits that are indiscriminate and answerable to nobody.
That’s the real question that people should be concerned about.
He further explained that there are currently about 600 nonprofit organizations operating in San Francisco, ostensibly to provide services for the city’s residents, including its large homeless population.
The primary donor to these nonprofit organizations is the City of San Francisco—or, more precisely, its dwindling taxpayer base. In return for receiving millions from city officials, the directors of nonprofits give generous campaign donations to these same city officials.
With this huge money flow, one should NOT expect the homeless problem to be solved.
Likewise, with such vast sums reaped from the illegal immigration industry, it would be unrealistic to expect that the U.S. government will put an end to it.
These are just two examples of the perverse incentives for generating crises and dysfunction—a dynamic that arises when corrupt people assume state power and are granted unlimited access to debt financing and money creation.
To solve social, political, and public health problems would be to turn off the money spigot.
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