re: #248 gordon marock

Businesses compete on price to get customers and increase profit. Also, good service keeps customers, even if the price is sometimes higher.

Businesses also charge as much as they can without exceeding the price that the market will bear. Firefighting is very expensive. The value of the item which the firefighter protects (homes) is very high. The market could and would bear a very, very high price indeed were firefighting truly a fee-for-service industry.

I feel like you are trying to construct a strawman for me to attack. Your argument is tacitly absurd.