Reply #33: The city can't tax people who don't live in that city.

[Baalath]

Ohio can't tax Illinois residents, and so on and so on.

So are you saying the county should have created a fire department and taxed itself? Maybe, I wouldn't want to live somewhere without fire services. These county residents have lived like this for 20 years. Maybe they should stop blaming the city that paid the taxes and supported a fire department.

I think that the whole county government and residents of the county have some moral responsiblity here. What if a child was trapped? There is no one who is going to come next time to help them. Fire departments help each other out when they have reciprocity agreements. They don't send their fighters and equipment out to any fire they can outside their district because no one there bothered to buy a fire truck. I read their worker's comp insurance doesn't even cover them if they work at non-contracted fires.

I think that whole county is full of twits to live like that. I think they have a lot of nerve to whine at the city workers when they weren't willing to tax themselves to take care of themselves.