• martin_yxe@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Income/ revenue is not the same as profit, just like a meat patty is not a hamburger.

    Socially acceptable to use interchangeably and even a dictionary might call them synonyms but they’re not.

    Yes volunteer firefighters are paid for their time when responding to an emergency but no one else is making money off the firefighter or the equipment being deployed. We all pitch in through taxes and get a service in exchange, no one is enriched by it.

    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      In my experience, the fire department sues through the country for “restitution”, so I got to pay twice…