Disbursement of Revenue: Fire/Safety/Emergency Funding

Disbursement of Federal Hemp/Cannabis Revenue

Section 3: Industrial and Economic

Part B: Fire/Safety/Emergency Funding

8%  of Total Disbursement

 Purpose:      To double the relative pay of all those who serve as

Fire/Safety/Emergency personnel within a decade;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing a means to double the relative income of Fire/Safety/Emergency personnel within 10 years of the enactment of this Proposal.

“If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?”

~ John Godfrey Saxe, (American journalist, poet, and lecturer) circa 1850

A Portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to supplement Fire/Safety/Emergency Professional’s salaries from a Federal pool diverted proportionately Nationwide with the Sole Purpose of increasing the salaries of Fire/Safety/Emergency Professionals.  An anticipated goal is to achieve, within a decade of enactment of the U.S. H.E.M.P. Act, a doubling of the pay of Fire/Safety/Emergency Professionals relative to that which it is at the time of enactment, consistent to salaries currently in effect in each State and Local jurisdiction.

Purpose:      To allow for continuous upgrade of Fire/Safety/Emergency

equipment nationwide;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of upgrading critical equipment of Fire/Safety/Emergency departments, with emphasis given to those departments, rural and urban, most in need.

“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.” 

~ Kurt Vonnegut

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to supplement State, Local and National Fire/Safety/Emergency Agencies upgrade and purchase of new and modern critical equipment Nationwide.  Emphasis is to be given to those jurisdictions, either rural or urban, which are most in need of equipment upgrade.  Primary use of such funds should be focused on communication equipment, vehicles and other daily critical equipment needed to sustain an effective and functioning Fire/Safety/Emergency community.  This funding will be permanent and ongoing, spreading through jurisdictions and repeating thereafter to provide a continuous and growing fund with which to supplement equipment purchase on a State, Local and Federal level.

Purpose:      To allow for growth in numbers of trained Fire/Safety/Emergency

personnel nationwide;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of Recruiting and Training of Fire/Safety/Emergency personnel.

“When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished.  What he does after that is all in the line of work.” 

~ Edward F. Croker

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to provide funds with which to train and hire State, Local and Federal Fire/Safety/Emergency Professionals Nationwide.  Funding will also be available to supply, Nationwide, continuous and ongoing training and education for State, Local and Federal Fire/Safety/Emergency Professionals Nationwide.  This funding will be permanent and ongoing.

Purpose:      To allow for the development of Citizen Emergency

Preparedness training programs nationwide;

A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of Hemp/Cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of establishing Citizen Emergency Preparedness programs nationwide so as to better and more appropriately deal with Local, National and Environmental emergencies.

“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”

~ A.A. Milne

A portion of the Hemp/Cannabis Tax portioned for Fire/Safety/Emergency funding will be used to establish regionally relevant Citizen Emergency Preparedness programs Nationwide.  Such programs should be established with regional situations in mind to deal with natural or catastrophic events and disasters and focus on Citizen based education and training programs.  Such programs should be 100% voluntary yet strongly encouraged as through all available spheres of influence with emphasis on community service and community pride.  Local recruitment efforts should be as broad as possible, including such tactics as competitions and fairs, reaching through both the Educational systems as well as tapping into the broad Faith-Based Activism communities available.  A modest goal is that if even one in ten individuals are aware of what needs to be done in a crisis situation, such events as evacuations as well as disaster preparation and prevention will be more effectively accomplished.