While I don't begrudge people spending their money on whatever they want, these are likely the same people that benefited from the recent tax cut for the wealth

While I don't begrudge people spending their money on whatever they want, these are likely the same people that benefited from the recent tax cut for the wealthy. The government cuts taxes for the rich, reducing funding available for the public good and the rich then use those funds for themselves. I completely understand the argument that those funds are then trickling down to the firefighters and their families; however, the fire prevention benefits are now limited to the rich neighborhoods instead of the wider area a public application of those same funds to hire firefighters would have benefited. It is a net loss. Another thing I struggle with is that we arrest the poor and send them into harms way to protect the wealthy for $1 an hour. We are rapidly approaching a time of the rich living in protected enclaves and the poor in polluted unsafe neighborhoods policed by forces only intent on keeping the rabble pacified. In New York City, the richest city in the world, 1/10 of public school kids are homeless...