Reply #47: Is it to make a point?

[LiberalAndProud]

The likelihood is that any given property won't experience a fire this year. The city has no legal avenue to assess a tax on out-of-city homeowners.

If a homeowner has access to services when the worst happens, even at a sizable monetary risk, the likelihood is that annual revenues to equip and prepare the fire dept. for the inevitable accident will be absent. It's not like you can run out and buy a fire truck when the fire is already burning. The equipment and the manpower have to be already in place.

If the city cannot assess taxes, can they impose fines? Somehow I think that may be precluded as well. The whole mindset of the structure of this law is libertarian. And isn't personal responsibility an underlying principal of that mindset?