The IAFF has joined the Teamsters in not endorsing any candidate

[u/worried68]

[u/bleach_tastes_bad]

i’d love to know how they get their money, then :)

[u/HalliganHooligan → u/bleach_tastes_bad]

Property tax, like most places. Fiscal responsibility with tax money. Bonds to fund large projects. It can be done, and is done in many places.

[u/bleach_tastes_bad → u/HalliganHooligan]

¯_(ツ)_/¯ i guess it depends on the dept. i do think, though, that there’s a major difference in costs between a dept that has 2 engines running 2-3 people/unit and 3 shifts, that only replaces their rigs every 20 years, and a dept with 20 units running 4 ppl/unit, 4 shifts, and replacing their units every 5 years or less. especially because most of these larger departments are in bigger cities where there are way less homeowners than renters, so proportionally, less property tax is being collected per capita vs smaller depts in smaller towns where there’s a much larger ratio of people who own property