Heroes:Pay or else?

[sdduuuude]

The question I have is – why isn’t there the $20,000 “real time” option ?

I mean, if the guy didn’t pay his $75, punish him by charging him for the service but don’t let his house burn. That is the lose-lose option.

Go for the win-win option. He wants his house saved and is willing to pay. The firefighters want to save his house and fund the department.

Interesting to see if insurance will cover it.

[GH]

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.

[GH]

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.

[GH]

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.

[GH]

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.

[GH]

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.

[Anonymous]

Hmm, just so it’s clear, I don’t think this was a privatization issue. Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD. If someone knows something different, please let us know.

Be careful out there!

ps I heard a story about a private FD somewhere in AZ that has pre-paid service offerings, but if your house starts on fire, they’ll come out and put it out for a serious multiple of their usual annual rate. That makes some sense, I think!

[Anonymous]

Hmm, just so it’s clear, I don’t think this was a privatization issue. Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD. If someone knows something different, please let us know.

Be careful out there!

ps I heard a story about a private FD somewhere in AZ that has pre-paid service offerings, but if your house starts on fire, they’ll come out and put it out for a serious multiple of their usual annual rate. That makes some sense, I think!

[Anonymous]

Hmm, just so it’s clear, I don’t think this was a privatization issue. Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD. If someone knows something different, please let us know.

Be careful out there!

ps I heard a story about a private FD somewhere in AZ that has pre-paid service offerings, but if your house starts on fire, they’ll come out and put it out for a serious multiple of their usual annual rate. That makes some sense, I think!

[Anonymous]

Hmm, just so it’s clear, I don’t think this was a privatization issue. Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD. If someone knows something different, please let us know.

Be careful out there!

ps I heard a story about a private FD somewhere in AZ that has pre-paid service offerings, but if your house starts on fire, they’ll come out and put it out for a serious multiple of their usual annual rate. That makes some sense, I think!

[Anonymous]

Hmm, just so it’s clear, I don’t think this was a privatization issue. Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD. If someone knows something different, please let us know.

Be careful out there!

ps I heard a story about a private FD somewhere in AZ that has pre-paid service offerings, but if your house starts on fire, they’ll come out and put it out for a serious multiple of their usual annual rate. That makes some sense, I think!

[Eugene]

Tennessee. The quintessential red state.

[quote]Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD.[/quote]

That’s my understanding too.

On the other hand, I live outside the city boundaries, I had to call the 911 at least twice in the last year, and I never had to pay anything up front for the fire department to come. I pay $6000/year in property taxes and it would only be common sense that there should be some fire department somewhere that would be partially funded out of my taxes in order to respond to emergencies here. Evidently, not in Tennessee.

[Eugene]

Tennessee. The quintessential red state.

[quote]Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD.[/quote]

That’s my understanding too.

On the other hand, I live outside the city boundaries, I had to call the 911 at least twice in the last year, and I never had to pay anything up front for the fire department to come. I pay $6000/year in property taxes and it would only be common sense that there should be some fire department somewhere that would be partially funded out of my taxes in order to respond to emergencies here. Evidently, not in Tennessee.

[Eugene]

Tennessee. The quintessential red state.

[quote]Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD.[/quote]

That’s my understanding too.

On the other hand, I live outside the city boundaries, I had to call the 911 at least twice in the last year, and I never had to pay anything up front for the fire department to come. I pay $6000/year in property taxes and it would only be common sense that there should be some fire department somewhere that would be partially funded out of my taxes in order to respond to emergencies here. Evidently, not in Tennessee.

[Eugene]

Tennessee. The quintessential red state.

[quote]Seems like it’s the city FD asking citizens who live outside the city boundaries to pay a fee to be eligible for service from the city FD.[/quote]

That’s my understanding too.

On the other hand, I live outside the city boundaries, I had to call the 911 at least twice in the last year, and I never had to pay anything up front for the fire department to come. I pay $6000/year in property taxes and it would only be common sense that there should be some fire department somewhere that would be partially funded out of my taxes in order to respond to emergencies here. Evidently, not in Tennessee.

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