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The Mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire (media.kbin.earth)
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town that always catches on fire rule

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 63 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 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!

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But that's socialism, noooooo \s

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

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