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Zelenskiy pushes US for more aid, invites Trump to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Has that already happened with fire departments? Sure someone is probably corrupt, but they do a great job of keeping my house not on fire for free. I'd love M4A, even if middlemen skim off the top in the short term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fire departments are funded by local taxes or staffed by volunteers.

There isn't a massive for-profit firemen corporation that controls departments across the US, to the best of my knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It wasn't massive by today's standards, but we did actually used to have for profit fire departments funded by insurance.