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Originally Posted by Rochard
Well, my local police department and fire department isn't paid for out of my federal taxes.
I'm paying for my benefits one way or another, and I have zero choices in the matter. My insurance company wasn't picked by me; It was picked by my wife's employer. We also had no say in what options we get, or how much we pay.
This is a really crappy system.
As for taxes, raise my taxes. There are so many legal loop holes in our tax system that only the stupid people pay taxes.
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You would be shocked to find out how much of your local police and fire department is subsidized by federal money. I have a few good friends that are cops and they tell me that as much as 30% of their budget comes from federal money. Their day to day activities are paid for with local and state funds, but pretty much all of their training and many other things they do are paid for by federal grants.
A good example: Where my buddy is a cop they have a big river that goes way up into the hills and woods outside of the town. There is a road that follows it up through this corridor for about 20 miles and it is a place that a lot of people go to chill out, swim and party in the summer. This entire summer they ran patrols up their on the weekends. They were voluntary shifts and were 100% overtime pay and every cent of it was paid for with federal money.