>>>>>I'm with you. There's no excuse for such a basic service not being covered by tax dollars. No one should have to pay separately for a fire company.
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>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>Well that's it then. Hell's frozen over.
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>>>>I agree.
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>>>That's cool! We've found at least one service that we agree is a public responsibility and should be tax-funded. We'll never agree on everything, but I'm pretty sure we could find some other things as well, if we tried.
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>>>Tamar
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>>I think there are a number of services that should be tax funded, including..
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>>Police/Fire/EMT should be available to all except the terminally stupid - those that take idiotic risks - you know - extreme sports and such.
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>>National Defense. No "I'm sorry Mr. Jones - you haven't paid your yearly defense surcharge so you have no air cover".
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>>Health Care - yeah - Health Care. A REAL health care system - not the BS currently in the pipes. Tax funded. Sick? Go to the doctor or hospital. Done. No insurance BS at all.
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>>Schools - all the way through 4 year state college.
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>I agree with all of those except the extreme sport. If a taxpayer has an accident while skydiving, they should still get emergency care.

Here we have the problem with skydivers jumping off high cliffs, and get stuck, seriously injured, in the mountain side. Usually the skydiver get a heavy fine, but unfortunately not high enough to cover the rescue operation. The rescuers must risk their own life to help these people, but the skydivers always complain when they are asked to open their wallet.