Defend the quoted numbers, if you like. I don’t think they are accurate. If they do reflect an argument why wages should not be a priority, and I think they probably do, I think they reflect a bias against wage-earners. A bias that is coming with an increasingly unacceptable price tag.
I’m sure there are contexts for intellectual questions, meaning information and intelligence, that don’t have to answer to wages, for example where a formal, or informal, non-disclosure rule is in force. Not here, where wages are discussed. The relationship of; wages for fuels crews, wildfire risk and insurance cost, is undeniable.
The season of suppression may be upon you, but there are, yet, longer term issues that need answers. In any case, if your discourse must avoid wages? See you at the polls.
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