Speaker: Banning begging will be about as effective as banning breathing
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Auckland mayoral candidate Mark Thomas has promised to introduce a new bylaw to prohibit begging in Auckland. Banning begging will be about as effective as banning breathing.
Not only is it the last bastion of the broken and bent, but human nature means most of us also want to help.
From my observation, Street People are as cunning as a Remuera rat and as wily as a Penthouse fox.
Not all are receiving a benefit or appropriate mental health care or addressing addictions. A lot of homeless people are not literate enough to read this rant, let alone comply with…