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Another Tennessee Home Burns As Firefighters Watch
The controversy associated with subscription fire services is not new. Whether you look at the economics, legality, or morality – it is a bad situation. Here’s a link to a podcast we did last year on a similar case from Tennessee.
I can think of a worse situation.
No fire department because no one wants to pay for it (until their house is on fire).
No city should be allowed to charge their residents for something that is a communtiy service. That would be just the same if you had to pay for police and your being threaten with your life and they just say oh well we will get some popcorn and watch cause you didnt pay tisk tisk. This is a shame. If your fire dept needs fund put it on the ticket for a tax increase and dont just hit up the poor and working classes. Maybe they should have someone investigate these fires I bet the fire dept started it just to prove a point. Personally I wouldnt spit on them even if they themselves were on fire. I live in the country and we have state funded fire, police, and medics and they are funded through the tax dollars that we all pay not just the targeted few. For this reason alone I will never stop in your backwoods hick state nor will I ever move there.
Well, there certainly is alot of misinformation out there.
The community in question(where the fire occurred) does not have a fire department. The fire department from a neighboring community is willing to come outside of their corporate limits – and into the unincorporated community – but it requires a subscription fee to offset its costs. They have no way to impose a tax.
Are you suggesting that the people in Community A be taxed more in order to pay for fire protection for Community B? Is that fair? Or should the folks in Community B be responsible enough to pay for their own fire protection. Community B can either create and fund their own fire department, pay Community A a fee for services, OR pay the subscription fee. Is there some other option you might suggest?
Amen