Another House Burns Down in Tennessee
This is a repeat of some old news. Trailer is left to burn to the ground because the owner did not pay for fire protection from the local fire department. The trucks came but when they realized the owner had not paid the fee and there was nobdy in danger from the fire it was left to burn to the ground.
The fire department's response was what incentive would any one have to pay the $75.00 fee if they could get the service for free or pay only after the fact.
If there ever was a reason for some things being mandatory. Isn't that the reason that some properties are sold on the courthouse steps because the "owner" did not pay the property taxes. This issue doesn't come up often in more urban areas because the danger of fires spreading is much greater. Rural Tennessee is pretty close frontier land and I'm sure that people think it will never happen to them. What if the poor person in a trailer paid his rent and the owner did not pay the fire fee. Is the renter required to pay the fire fee
Next year the Supreme Court will decide if the new health care reform act is constitutional, The law mandates people to buy insurance or pay a fine if they don't. This will probably work better than the current system but there are no guarantees.
As in fire protection or health insurance or police protection if they don't get there in time with the right equipment bad things can happen. From personal experience laws can and do make things more difficult but in other ways they try to insure that the costs of doing business are paid for, monopolies are not created without regulation and that the poor have some protection against the rich powerful and aggressive that would be happy to exploit the benefits of wealth without limits.
The fire department's response was what incentive would any one have to pay the $75.00 fee if they could get the service for free or pay only after the fact.
If there ever was a reason for some things being mandatory. Isn't that the reason that some properties are sold on the courthouse steps because the "owner" did not pay the property taxes. This issue doesn't come up often in more urban areas because the danger of fires spreading is much greater. Rural Tennessee is pretty close frontier land and I'm sure that people think it will never happen to them. What if the poor person in a trailer paid his rent and the owner did not pay the fire fee. Is the renter required to pay the fire fee
Next year the Supreme Court will decide if the new health care reform act is constitutional, The law mandates people to buy insurance or pay a fine if they don't. This will probably work better than the current system but there are no guarantees.
As in fire protection or health insurance or police protection if they don't get there in time with the right equipment bad things can happen. From personal experience laws can and do make things more difficult but in other ways they try to insure that the costs of doing business are paid for, monopolies are not created without regulation and that the poor have some protection against the rich powerful and aggressive that would be happy to exploit the benefits of wealth without limits.
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