Honestly, I am opposed to anything related to drugs and drug use. No, I don't want to fund the habits of others. It should not be a tax payer funded program. I think more of a charitable donation sponsored program would work. If I choose to donate money to these so called safe injection facilities, than so be it. I should not be mandated to fund someone's weakness and self imposed addiction.
And I'm sure most people agree with you on that.
It's mandated that you pay for their care, via tax money right now. Is it an "out of sight, out of mind" thing regarding the medical care costs they consume?
I think we'd all agree taxes aren't going away any time soon (or, ever), so what do you believe they should be spent on? Things that help the greater good such as roads and bridges, other infrastructure like electrical grids, medical and personal care for those who cannot, or don't have the means to, care for themselves?
I understand the idea behind not wanting to essentially subsidize their habit, and that's one way to look at it, but if you believe that tax money should be collected and distributed to, as a whole, benefit society, then this program is something that you should support. We currently spend a metric ####-ton of money on the war on drugs. This idea that the government picks and chooses what we, the country of freedom, can put into our bodies through force, by extension. This idea that drug
abuse is not a public health issue. And this idea that we can be trusted, as a society, to gather in these places that serve beer, wine, liquor, etc. with the assumption that most Americans are responsible enough to consume those things and not be a danger to others; even in the face of the large number of people who don't maintain that responsibility, but should not be trusted to do the same for other substances.