re: #310 Obdicut

Or maybe he didn’t even understand or hadn’t heard of the policy.

Or maybe he did pay, but the check got lost in the mail.

Well It seems that most people here haven’t read the article (at most you all have read the liberal baiting article from Think Progress) I found a couple of articles (news articles, not we want tv ratings or we want liberal policy articles) that state that the family was contacted multiple times in multiple ways about the $75. They clearly made a choice to not pay the $75, they screwed themselves…hopefully they weren’t this dumb with their homeowners insurance (and hopefully their insurance isn’t voided by their not paying the fire protection bill).

re: #316 Varek Raith

Yeah, whatever.
Why stop there?
Just pay your police protection.
And if you can’t afford the ambulance fee?
Too bad.

And further evidence that no one here is reading about this situation. This isn’t some private fire service. This is a city fire department, payed with city taxes. Just like most every other fire department in the country. These people lived out of the city and were told to receive the same service that the tax paying people in the city receive they needed to pay for it. But because the homeowner was selfish and figured he’d still get the service he didn’t pay for it.