[jiggyboy]

They never make the economically obvious choice of simply eliminating jobs. That would be an acknowledgement that the kingdom is too big, and that the king has too big of an army.

[Balding_Eagle]

I’ll bet there are long, long, waiting lists of people who want to be firefighters.

Fire the current workers and hire new.

Obviously a certain amount of judgement needs to be used in order to maintain a certain level of fire crew experience.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Could they put the city in bankruptcy and do it that way?

[Jim from C-Town]

The most logical approach is to privatize the fire services. They simply put the jobs up for bid. They fact is that firefighters are the Worlds most expensive insurance policy. As important as they are the majority of the time they sit around and watch TV at the taxpayers expense. It is time to eliminate the repulsive costs of keeping these people on staff. Private firms would do best at managing and paying these people. We would eliminate the repulsive pay and benefits packages and the ridiculous pension plans that allow people in their forties and fifties to retire with lifetime pay and benefits.

[Eye of Unk]

I do believe there was a tax break just introduce for new hires, perhaps there is a loophole businesses are using, fire your workforce and then re-hire, get a tax break.