> In my town, the mayor and council make about $30k each while the median income in the city is well over $100k and houses cost over $1M.

The chief of police summons a recently enrolled policeman in his office: "The accounting called, and apparently you never picked your pay cheques in the last 6 months? What's up with that?" ― "Wait, we get paid? I thought it was, you get the badge and then gun, and then you're on your own!"

The things with jokes, however, is that they probably should not become reality.