Posted on 10/03/2010 5:28:40 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Imagine if it were police officers watching a murder happen. If those people didn’t pay their taxes, would it be okay for the cops to sit idly by and watch?
“BTW, in the good old days if you didn’t subscribe they didn’t put out the fire “
How exactly is that the “good” old days?
I don’t know about this...so the idea of firefighters crossing state lines to put out forest fires and likewise grand blazes shouldn’t happen?
This kind of changes the definition of what firefighters should do and starts to put bureaucratic constraints on them (according to our records, this homeowner didn’t pay, so...).
Isn’t that what we’re fighting against here???
I had a conversation about this today with a good friend who is a career parmedic/figher fighter for a small town.
His first response was that the FD sent a strong statement to everyone else that they’d better pay. His second response was “they went about it the wrong way, it’s not right.”
He also said that no one he knows in his dept. would do such a thing while there was a fire and that they routinely cross county lines to assist citizens without any compensation from the neighbor county.
We both agreed there are better ways of doing it, such as charging non-subscribers a large fee to fight the fire and placing a lien on the property if they don’t pay much like a plumber, electrician, contractor do when work is performed and a homeowner does not pay.
We also agreed the homeowner probably has a good lawsuit against the Fire Chief and town.
I hope the judge tosses the charges against the son who decked the fire captain.
People took responsibility for themselves and understood that there were consequences for irresponsibility. Also, they didn't expect government to confiscate money from their neighbors and hand the loot over to them in exchange for their votes. Those were "the good old days", before the Democrats and their media allies beat it into people's minds that there was nothing shameful about voting themselves the fruits of their neighbors' hard work.
Hope this helps.
FRegards,
LH
It’s not, of course, but private fire protection companies haven’t always been around, nor have public ones for that matter. This is where Ben Franklin’s “fire insurance” came in ~ to fill the gaps!
According to some here it would perfectly ok
and now according to some reports it was his neighbors who called the fire not him.and it was not a tax it was 75.00 charge
In post #176 I mentioned that there is irony in the fact that if the township decided to offer their own fire protection services, then the property taxes increase would be less than the discount the homeowners insurance company would offer since thay would now have fire protection.
Another irony in this particular story...According to what I have read, the Tenn. homeowner who is the subject of the OP didn’t have homeowners insurance. Also from what I can tell, the homeowner called 911 after the house was fully involved. So even if the FD did put the fire out, the homeowner, sans insurance would now have this wrecked or nearly wrecked home and no insurance to either fix the place or tear it down and or rebuild.
If the insurance issue is true, we are tying ourselves into knots to agrue against or defend a situation that if handled differently would have had no different ultimate outcome.
LOL!
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