How Homeless Drug Addicts Just Voted To Raise Your Taxes (opens in new tab)

Imagine it’s 75 degrees and sunny, you’re outside with friends, gumbo sizzlin’ on the cooker, cold Modelo in hand. Not a care, not a job, not a clue. You just registered to vote by scratching a few signatures on a pamphlet, cast a ballot for God-knows-who, and, for your devout civic duty, you are rewarded with a cigarette.Inhale, exhale. The smoke blows across the pavement and eventually dissolves into the view of ethereal skies and the rolling, smoggy silhouette of the Hollywood Hills.That, ...