In liberal jurisdictions where homelessness is exploited as a pretext to confiscate wealth, it takes any number of taxpayers to support a single drug-addled derelict. California is one example; New York City is another.

The New York Post reports:

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just revealed that New York City is now spending $81,000 per street homeless person — in a town where average take-home pay is no higher than $40,600.

$81,000 per year per bum? Not enough. The Islamocommie mayor wants to waste more:

City Hall projects it to hit nearly $97,000 in the coming year.

The trajectory has been straight up into the stratosphere:

Overall, this spending has skyrocketed from $102 million in 2018 to $368 million last year, up 320% even as the street-homeless population grew just 26%.

That’s not all:

These figures don’t include about $500 million a year for supportive housing, mental health co-response teams, the NYPD’s homeless-clearing work or other outlays for this population.

Either hobos are sleeping off their fentanyl binges in platinum-plated refrigerator boxes, or most of this money goes to graft.

Not all liberals embrace moonbattery because they are morons; some use it to make easy money that other people worked for.

On tips from patthedog and abcanc.