Resolved: The United States Federal Government shall solve poverty.

From my best understanding of your... argument, you are proposing a $100 dollar tax for everyone to provide more homeless shelters. Without any actual definition of who pays the taxes, you are causing the people in poverty to pay the tax to help them. That just makes the problem worse. Also, homeless shelters only help homeless, which is only a portion of the impoverished population. Regulations cause growth to decline and U.S. firms to invest in other nations OIRA 2016 [12-23-16, "2016 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Agency Compliance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act," pg. 46-47, NVM] Excessive and unnecessary regulations, on the other hand, can place undue burdens on companies, consumers, and workers, and may cause growth and overall productivity to slow. While the evidence remains less than entirely clear, some evidence suggests that domestic environmental regulation has led some U.S. firms to invest in other nations, and in that sense, such regulation may have an adverse effect on domestic growth.105 At the same time, the direct impacts of particular regulations, or categories of regulations, on the overall economy may be difficult to establish because causal chains are uncertain and because it is hard to control for relevant variables. If they are not carefully designed, regulations can impose significant costs on businesses, potentially dampening economic competition and capital investment. Djankov et al.106 find that increased regulations on entry into markets"such as licensing and fees"create higher costs of entry and thus adversely affect economic outcomes.107 By contrast, van Stel et al. find that entry regulations actually have little impact on entrepreneurship, but that regulations creating greater labor rigidity have a discernible negative impact.108 This evidence shows that businesses will leave the United States to do tax increases. Increasing property taxes decreases educational quality Joravsky 7/6/17 Ben is a senior investigative reporter for reader, "Funding schools with property taxes hurts Chicago students", https://www.chicagoreader.com... In an effort to teach my beloved fellow Chicagoans how our school funding system works against us, I visited the land of milk and honey: Winnetka, hometown of Governor Bruce Rauner. I traveled there last Wednesday with several CPS parents from the Raise Your Hand coalition, who were trying to rally Rauner's neighbors to their cause. The parents hoped that going door-to-door in Rauner's town could convince one or two Winnetkans to call the governor on their behalf and say: The state's system for funding schools isn't fair! As if appeals to fairness will make a difference to Rauner, once described by Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg as "a plutocrat with nine homes and a heart the size of a gumball." Still the best line in recent memory, as far as column writing goes. By chance, I visited Winnetka on the very Wednesday that Rauner grudgingly agreed to send enough state aid to Chicago to keep its school system from going bankrupt, at least for the time being. But last week's stopgap measure doesn't confront the fundamental flaw in school funding: schools are largely funded by property taxes. How much you pay in property taxes is determined by multiplying the value of your property by the tax rate. The more a town's properties are worth, the more money it can raise for its schools. The median value of a house in Winnetka"one of the wealthiest municipalities in the country according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey"is about $1.2 million. In Chicago, it's about $208,000. Also, Winnetka taxes its property at a higher rate than Chicago does. In summary, the town takes advantage of its wealth. Now you know why annual per-pupil spending in Winnetka is about $22,000, while in Chicago it's only about $15,000. And why Winnetka's New Trier High School has ten librarians. While most Chicago high schools have none. Well, that's also due in part to the fact that Mayor Rahm wastes money on trivialities"like a basketball arena for DePaul"rather than spending it on important things, like librarians. But let's keep the mayor's skewed priorities out of this conversation, at least for one column. In general, people in Winnetka can afford to pay more in property taxes because, well, they make more money. The median income in Winnetka is about $208,000. In Chicago, it's about $48,000. As an example, take Governor Rauner"please. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) He pays about $82,000 a year in property taxes for his lovely home in Winnetka, according to the Cook County Treasurer's Office. Of course, Rauner made about $57 million in 2014, the last time he reported his income. So $82,000 is less than half of 1 percent of Rauner's annual income. In contrast, my dear friend Bernie, who lives down the street in Ravenswood, paid "only" $10,000 in property taxes this year. But his household income is about $100,000. So Bernie's paying about 10 percent of his income in property taxes. If Rauner paid 10 percent of his annual income in property taxes, he'd be kicking in $5.7 million a year, which still leaves him enough cash to buy a bottle or two of wine for his next get-together with Rahm, now that the two of them have apparently patched up the feud no one believed they were having in the first place. Just so you know, not everyone in Winnetka pays as much as Rauner in property taxes. Most of Rauner's neighbors pay about $35,000 a year. Many of them receive a home-owner's exemption, a tax break given to people who live in their property. Rauner doesn't. In 2013, Kerry Lester, a Daily Herald reporter, discovered that Rauner was receiving the home-owner's exemption on three separate properties, including the house in Winnetka. Even though, by law, a home-owner's only supposed to take the exemption for one property. It's good to see the governor's corrected this oversight. The point is that the Winnetka residents are largely insulated from the annual school-funding turmoil that has so many Chicagoans"like the parents from Raise Your Hand"howling at the moon. Think about it this way: Winnetka's wealth enables it to essentially self-fund a first-rate school system with very little need of state or federal assistance. And so its schools are protected from politicians like Rauner. Look, I'm not hating on Winnetka. The folks in the village do it right when it comes to schools. They don't pretend money doesn't matter when it comes to education. They don't nickel-and-dime their teachers. They offer their kids a wide range of curriculum choices. If we're serious about educating low-income students we'd emulate the spare-no-expenses model favored by New Trier, treating poor children in Englewood like they were living in Winnetka. This piece of evidence shows that education for everyone, impoverished and otherwise, will go down by increasing taxes.