I suggest panhandlers should be licensed.
If they are making money, then they are running a business.
They should be placed in the panhandler guild, and have their GST checks confiscated to pay for the guild program.
Their first license could be $10, and their locations rented from the city for $10/month.
If there are 5000 panhandlers in Toronto, then this means $1.17 million to fund the panhandlers guild by civil servants including instructions on how to be a legitimate panhandler.
The $50000 for licenses could fund the homeless shelters, and so could the $600000 for location rentals.
In total $1.82 million in revenue could be generated to fund this growing industry.
Everything else should be exempted from taxation as members of the panhandlers guild are charity cases.
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One could also apply this solution to drug addicts, prostitutes and gang members.
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