I think here, to bring up something Cenk said (the guy speaking in the video), there is a time and place where community is an important reality.  Putting out fires is a community concern, and has to be taken care of.  If you have an issue that is a county issue, then it needs to be resolved there.  I believe that the concerns of the community here override whether or not someone is a cheapskate or not.

Taxes are a good thing when used right, wasting the money on someone who wont pay a tax would of been wroung.

They did a good job coming and stopping it spreading to the people who did pay. I just wish other goverments would follow suit and stop giving so much damn money away. Hell think how good the UK would be if the only money they spent on the immigrants was a ticket home, but no each family costs the tax payer over a million a year.

Back on topic the firefighters are probally getting underbudget due to putting out peoples fires that dont pay, and this is there wakeup call to people.

The person acting against the community is the guy who doesn't want to pay the tax. He's the selfish one who's only out for hiw own interest.

I don't have a bunch of money, BUT when it comes to my safety and the safety of my family and of others, I can certainly spare $75.

The problem in the United States isn't that Americans are unwilling to pay taxes to provide adequate essential services, the problem is that the money collected is used to pay for so many non-essential services that core services are underfunded.  People like to blame "the military" for this, but the military is an essential service, only takes up a small portion of the federal budget, and this is a problem in state and municipal governments (which don't pay for the military).

There are individuals with a libertarian bent in their life philosophy, who believe communities are a myth and the only thing that exists are individuals who negotiate contracts among themselves.  They don't want to live anywhere others make demands on them and they have to go along with what the group says.  Ayn Rand's "enlightened self-interest" fits into this.

In the report it says the house owners said they were prepared to pay anything to have the fire put out. If this is true they should of put out the fire and got them to pay more than they would have otherwise.

forget all the right wrong bs.

The idiot fire man risked the fire spreading beyond their control. 

US is a joke. 

I don't think you understand what libertarianism is ...

Sure. And that's exactly what you said before. Shouldn't drink and try to think :P

Edit: Btw, reading the rest of the posts since then, I agree it's mostly on the very people who are against this tax. They put everyone else on an impossible situation.