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striker55 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 3:39 pm Since the voters wanted to give firefighters a raise, raise the voters taxes to pay for it.

They should make these things work like kickstarter. People can pledge money and if the initiative passes it comes out of the pockets of the people who voted for it.

Scott B. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:08 pm

montgomery wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:52 pm

ELB wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:08 pm It will be your dog when the cities go broke trying to pay their employee pensions and want the State of Texas and the Feds to bail them out.

Be careful of what you wish for is what the 400 firefighters with pink slips are thinking right about now.

They wished for a pay raise. City said, can't afford it. Jobs will go if it passes. Passes. Jobs went.