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The Mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire (media.kbin.earth)
submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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town that always catches on fire rule

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

It’s a money-sink and local governments don’t like that. The first things financially cut when I worked for a city of 170,000 were always services that didn’t make money. That’s just how it works.

The whole point of government is to collect taxes to pay for stuff that isn't revenue generating to spread out the costs!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 hours ago

Seriously, this. Government is supposed to fund services, not profitable businesses

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But that's socialism, noooooo \s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago

Meanwhile the government running businesses for profit is essentially the definition of socialism lol