Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We expect increasing costs in government ‘charity,’ in part because governments centralize and standardize methods, discouraging innovation and adaptation. It’s not a market. Government bureaucrats and operatives try to coordinate increasing staffs (along with market costs in housing, etc.) while necessarily dealing with clients as objects of pity and bother rather than, as in markets (where people exchange valuable goods), subjects whose responses immediately affect the ‘business’ at hand.” (03/24/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/24/homelessness-costs/