Every city and county belongs to a state with a broader tax base. Every state is a part of the richest country in the world. I’m sure you see where I’m getting at here.
But rural America calls that “socialism”.
But in Johns Creek where I use to live where the median household income is $170k. Firefighters aren’t volunteering
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/City-of-Johns-Creek/salaries/Fire...
I am arguing that in the US as a nation, no firefighter should have to “volunteer” that’s where the state and federal government should step in.
I’m more okay with taking my tax dollars as a person who makes a good living to help rural areas and I would vote for a politician to help them before they would.
Guess how many fundraisers I heard about when I lived in Johns Creek GA - with a median income of $150K?
How much money do you think it would take to fund the shortfall for every rural fire department?
On the other hand, fire hazard continues to reduce, which means that to an ever greater extent the full time crews can deliver what's needed even in semi-rural communities like where I grew up. Their current plan is close the station nearest to me (which was "On-call" staffed) permanently.
My old physics teacher was one of them. Very chill guy, that was outside of the classroom a non-negligable amount of time (though often for different reasons), but still way one of the best teachers I had.
(It was always fun when he wrote "minimum" on the board. Everyone wrote in cursive, but his writing literally just made it look like lines going up and down)
The very article said that even the software needs to be rewritten for new federal standards. Should that be free?
