California politicians have given the green light to so many boondoggles, they’re difficult to catalog. A $100 billion train that probably will never be completed, a $3,000 municipal garbage can in San Francisco, pandemic unemployment fraud to the tune of $30 billion … it goes on and on.
And now add the billions in tax money that California officials have spent to alleviate the state’s homeless issue — to virtually no avail.
In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state would allocate $14 billion — that’s more than the state of Nevada’s entire two-year budget — on programs designed to help the homeless. Yet by most accounts, the money California has already doled out has barely made a dent in a population that now numbers an estimated 161,000 people.
