Firefighters let house burn down over $75

[johnsobas]

kitler53 said:

the commentator is a douche but he isn't completely wrong.  some services are just flat out needed, fire-protection, roads, police, schools.  conservatives love to think using the free-market is the solution to everything but then this is what you get.  

the fire department should have put the fire out.

the $75 should have been a mandatory tax.

if it was mandatory it wouldn't need to be $75 either, if everyone pays the price will go down.  The fire dept. watching the house burn down is inexcusable.  If you want to force them to pay that's fine, the house and everything in is obviously worth many hundred times over the amount that they should have payed.