• explodicle@local106.com
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

      • explodicle@local106.com
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        1 year ago

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