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The right thing is not to charge fees for vital services.
Taxes are fees, fees are taxes. How are "vital services" to be rendered without fees? Are you volunteering to personally fund every vital service rendered to every individual in this nation?
I wouldn't run a fire department as a business but as a valid part of local government.
That wasn't the question.
Tough. Figure out something else.
All Hail to our Glorious Dictator, who sets policy throughout the land as He sees fit!
Not when firefighters watch people's houses burn down. That's the definition of incompetence.
Ringo
They did their job in accordance to their policy. They violated the policy the first time they put this guy's fire out. They did not make the same mistake twice.
All we have here is you insulting people who did their job because you don't like what their job is.
No. But a fire department isn't a business.
The point is, it's illogical to claim that someone has failed to do their job when there was no job for them to do. It wasn't the job of these firefighters to put out the man's fire. He did not pay the fee, therefore he is ineligible to receive fire service. It is inconsistent to claim that failing to render service to someone who hasn't paid for it is "incompetence".
Agreed. But a fire department isn't an insurance company either.
They accomplish nearly the same thing in this case. You pay now for a service later. With the fire department, the service is fire extinguishing. With a traditional insurance company, it's a payout. In either case, you can't experience your emergency or injury first, then buy the insurance or service later and expect it to cover what has already occurred.
If hed decided to pay his renewal 2 days before the fire there wouldnt be a problem.
Yep. He should have thought of that.
In fact the $75 isnt even the problem, since the department turned up anyway. They simply refused to fight the fire because they didnt want this guy setting a precedent and proving that this is a stupid way to fund a fire department.
Yeah. And I wouldn't render a service to someone who refused to pay duly either, whether in the capacity of a private business or contractor or a public servant, unless policy required me to- as in the case of a medical expert and someone who requires emergency lifesaving treatment.
The $75 fee is not in place to cover the cost of fighting the fire. Fighting a fire costs WAY MORE than $75. The fee is in place to SECURE ELIGIBILITY. If you fail to pay properly, you are INELIGIBLE. What is so hard to understand about this?
