Reply #59: See, I don't get it. If this fire service fee was just folded into his taxes

[Berry Cool]

there would be no issue of his "forgetting" it (which, yes, does happen). Somehow it seems strange to me that this guy would deliberately skip paying a $75 fee just because he was hoping not to need fire services. I guess I'll never succeed at persuading anyone of that who thinks he was just trying to sneak past the fee and get his fire services paid by other people, but hell.

I'm of the belief that fire, police and similar services are things that should NEVER be separate-fee, a la carte services. I don't care how things are set up locally; have people pay for those services as part of their local taxes and if those fees then have to be parceled out to a city, fine.