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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 77 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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] 58 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But that's socialism, noooooo \s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

In what definition or context is this true?