• Gumby@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Even for a small town, the yearly budget is likely in the millions of dollars. 60k/year shouldn’t be a crippling expense.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      This logic doesn’t really track because every expense that makes up their current budget is made up of many smaller expenses just like this.

      Every expense has to be guarded, that’s how budgets work. Each additional expense without a budgetary increase means that those expenses have to be taken out of something else.