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We’ve done the experiment with firefighting over and over again. It doesn’t end well...

• stale2002 6y ago
  You misunderstood their point. They were not asking for firefighters to be privatized. Instead they were asking for people to be allowed to earmark their tax revenue. So, someone could move their money from military spending, and put it in firefighting, for example.
  • kasey_junk 6y ago
    That will almost certainly mean critical services won’t be funded. We can see this with “school choice” initiatives. When they pass those that pay for private school remove their funds from the public school coffers. Firefighting is the same. If I’ve put in place fire prevention equipment & paid for insurance why should I fund public firefighting?
    • stale2002 6y ago
      > why should I fund public firefighting? I think quite a lot of people would choose to divert their military tax dollars to firefighting. > remove their funds from the public school coffers. I think that many more people would choose to put their tax dollars into public schools, than they would other things, such as the military.