Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE.
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 21 hours agoYuuup some really low taxes and also a lot of money gets turned into fighter jets and missiles which are of limited use in a structure fire unfortunately. If they asked me I’d shave off a cheeky 5% of our defense budget and turn it into emergency response but they don’t ask
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Everyone pays central government taxes also yes! (is that what “Federal” means?). It’s a shame something like you suggest can’t be pushed through pragmatically at that level but like you say, you can’t lob firefighters out of plans at people :)
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Yes, but the central government has a bunch of rules surrounding how it’s formed that can be summarized as “not elected by the people, but by the amount of land you own” so the central federal government doesn’t do anything that helps people, only things that enable big businesses to make more money.