• snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    3 months ago

    It’s a money-sink and local governments don’t like that. The first things financially cut when I worked for a city of 170,000 were always services that didn’t make money. That’s just how it works.

    The whole point of government is to collect taxes to pay for stuff that isn’t revenue generating to spread out the costs!

    • bambooEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      But that’s socialism, noooooo \s

        • HappyFrogEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          In what definition or context is this true?

          • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            All of them? I’m not sure I understand the question.

            First result on google for “socialism definition” as an example

            a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

            Governments running businesses is what “owning the means of production” means, in every context, by every definition.

            • HappyFrogEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              I think we think of “profit” differently, but sure.