>>>>>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.

Or burial service, depending on the severity of the accident ;-)

Paying for 4 year college would be great but I don't think it's going to happen any time soon. Government is broke at every level. The states are actually more broke than the feds because they can't print money. I just read in the paper earlier this week that things are getting even worse for states because so many troubled cities are putting the arm on them.