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Firefighters let a home burn down because $75 fee wasn't paid!

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They didn't watch the house burn. They did tend to the surrounding properties.

Stop spreading lies. The guy had the option to buy insurance for $75 and turned it down.
 
On a more positive note, I'll bet everyone in the county is on time with their annual $75 fire protection payments after this...
 
BoomerD said:
On a more positive note, I'll bet everyone in the county is on time with their annual $75 fire protection payments after this...
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Or Not!

Maybe they will pass laws taxing fire and police departments from the city next door for using their roads.

-John
 
In this case, Fire-Fighters, like entrepenuers, go out and collect $75 from everyone that will pay them. But unlike entrepenuers, they have a monopoly on fire fighting.

Therefore the people that pay them, or succumb to their extortion, have little more to hope for than the people that don't pay them.

It's really outrageous.

-John
 
Zorkorist said:
In this case, Fire-Fighters, like entrepenuers, go out and collect $75 from everyone that will pay them. But unlike entrepenuers, they have a monopoly on fire fighting.

Therefore the people that pay them, or succumb to their extortion, have little more to hope for than the people that don't pay them.

It's really outrageous.

-John
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There's no monopoly on firefighting. The county is free to set up its own fire service...and I'm sure some enterprising fellow could always buy a good water truck and go into business for himself.

Of course, the cost for PRIVATE fire service would be considerably higher than the $75/year.
 
No it wouldn't.

Insurance, has always been optional, except for two key things, Police and Fire.

These two things were deemed so important, that Government provides them.

We also allow Fire and Police to enter our grounds, etc.

That a Fire Department stands by and lets a house burn is ridiculously wrong.

-John
 
Zorkorist said:
No it wouldn't.

Insurance, has always been optional, except for two key things, Police and Fire.

These two things were deemed so important, that Government provides them.

We also allow Fire and Police to enter our grounds, etc.

That a Fire Department stands by and lets a house burn is ridiculously wrong.

-John
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You do realize that there are thousands of small communities across the country that do not directly provide police or fire departments to their citizens? They depend (and pay) larger towns to use their services.

In this case, the county refused to set up its own system, could not get the $75 fee institutionalized as a tax, and therefore people were left with the option of purchasing fire coverage.

The only people to point the finger at are (a) the guy who didn't bother to pay and (b) the other taxpayers that refused to pay for the service via tax.

They can blame themselves. That's it. The town's responsibility is to its taxpayers, not the taxpayers of its neighbors. Obviously, their fire department didn't want to be taken advantage of by the neighboring county, so they implemented this (completely reasonable) fee.



Zorkorist said:
What's the person that didn't pay his $75 for healthcare to do?

-John
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Services cost money. Usually those service costs are rolled into something else (taxes or job benefits). In this case they were not. Nothing in life is free and if you don't pay for a service, you shouldn't expect that service.
 
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BeauJangles said:
You do realize that there are thousands of small communities across the country that do not directly provide police or fire departments to their citizens? They depend (and pay) larger towns to use their services.

In this case, the county refused to set up its own system, could not get the $75 fee institutionalized as a tax, and therefore people were left with the option of purchasing fire coverage.

The only people to point the finger at are (a) the guy who didn't bother to pay and (b) the other taxpayers that refused to pay for the service via tax.

They can blame themselves. That's it.
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Dude...you're wasting your breath. All this has been explained numerous times...Zork is either too stupid to comprehend...or he's from New Zealand...😛
 
No, I don't realize that, as police and fire protection are pretty much the definition of a "town."

If that is the case, however, say I am a town on the interstate.

Do I get to block other police and fire departments from my town?

-John
 
BeauJangles said:
They can blame themselves. That's it. The town's responsibility is to its taxpayers, not the taxpayers of its neighbors. Obviously, their fire department didn't want to be taken advantage of by the neighboring county, so they implemented this (completely reasonable) fee.
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What you are not understanding, is say I refuse to pay them $75.

Yet they still have the right to make me pull over when they flash their lights, and blow their sirens.

Once they make me pull over for someone, is the time they make me pull over for everyone.

-John
 
It's not an even game.

I am subservient to the Government, and if I don't pay them what they want, they will let my house burn down.

-John
 
Since they tax me, I have no money left over to do my own fire protection.

Since they make me pay minimum wages, I can't hire people like I used to.

I have no privacy in my home, my castle.

But, they, they, can stand by and watch my house burn down, and keep me from reaching it.

-John
 
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