I am fine with privatization, as long as I no longer also have to carry the tax burden. As for the $75 bit, fine, but they SHOULD have allowed him to pay full cost for the service. I suppose had a child been in the home they would have allowed the child to die as well?

What I am typically seeing is government services being cut in favor of toll roads, pay for service, school bus service being cut etc, but we are still expected to pay more and more regular taxes as well, most of which goes to service retirements for previous govt workers who were not required to contribute enough to cover their costs.