Reply #5: IMHO emergency services should be paid for with tax dollars

[groundloop]

It's pretty simple, communities are expected to provide certain services to its residents and those services cost a certain number of dollars. When that community isn't raising enough revenue to pay for those services this happens.

I guess this is a basic differentiator between repukes and Democrats - we believe a government should collect enough taxes to pay for reasonable services for citizens, and that people who are able to pay their fair share should. Repukes are greedy and don't want their tax dollars to help others.

I view stuff like this as another way of sticking it to lower and middle income Americans so the rich don't have to pay their fair share of taxes. $490 to an average American is difficult to pay, to the wealthy it's chump change.