>>>>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.

OMG! I agree with you almost entirely. I'd have to sort out the "terminally stupid" issue a bit.

Tamar