When I asked homelessness advocate Paul Boden whether he thought it was okay for taxpayers to subsidize meth pipes, he suggested I was being hypocritical for not questioning the tax deduction that corporations claim for providing health care to their employees. “It sounds like you’re suggesting that providing meth pipes for people is the same as providing health care,” I said. “Providing meth pipes is the same as providing health care,” he said. “I think people are killing themselves with these drugs and anything that we can try, anything that we can do. . . . And if it doesn’t work, do
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