With no property taxes, who do you call when a fire breaks out in your kitchen?
Do property owners buy personal firetrucks?
“With no property taxes, “
Here in Michigan we have:
Sales Tax
State income Tax
Sometimes City income tax
Personal property tax (vehicle, boat, etc)
Gas tax
Electric tax
and so on.
With no property taxes, who do you call when a fire breaks out in your kitchen?
Do property owners buy personal firetrucks?
I would call the fire department who shows up in their brand new trucks, with police in their brand new SUV’s, and the police and fire department supervisors in their brand new vehicles. All of their vehicles, with 15,000 - 30,000 dollars worth of emergency light kits on them, can then be seen from space.
It is too bad we do not privatize services such as fire and police. It would be far less expensive.
“With no property taxes, who do you call when a fire breaks out in your kitchen?”
I’ve lived the vast majority of my life in two houses that were served by volunteer fire departments.
In the 1960s the VFD sent out cards in which a family would fill with 40 quarters.
Nowadays, I pay the NVFD via a $100 bank transfer.
If one doesn’t pay the dues, then the volunteer fire department will charge a response fee (about $800 circa 2010) whose amount I believe is set by FEMA.
I don't have children in public schools yet the portion of my property tax that goes to funding public schools is high. Every child gets "free" breakfast and lunch, "free" tablets that are theirs, new swimming pools.
Lets see the taxes I pay that are NOT property taxes.
Boro Income tax
County Income Tax
State Income Tax
Federal Income Tax
School District Tax
Sales Tax
Cell Phone Use Tax
Gas Tax
Tax on Electricity
Tax on water and sewage
Regional Asset District Tax
Local Services Tax
And there are DOZENS of others I can name on top of these that are not property taxes.
So, you trying to tell me that the Fire Department (which is volunteer by the way, not government provided) won’t service my kitchen fire if I don’t pay property taxes as well?
Be serious, police and fire are are hardly anywhere near what the majority of what your your property taxes are going to.
In my kitchen? Pedo Joe, of course.
Yes, some of us do. I live in a rural Fl area. Jacksonville and St. Augustine are rapidy encroaching. I’m a ‘damn Yankee but generally accepted here after 24 years. We not only have a truly local fire department (in terms of equipment) but we install our own hydrants etc. The county’s volunteer dept became professional about 4 years ago but are still 9 miles distant.
Why? - we are used to taking care of ourselves, and the entire neighborhood watched the county clowns when the local Civil War-era hotel burnt down ca 2005.. The first responders couldn’t even prime their pumps. When trucks from the adjacent county arrived, the two departments got into a pissing contest re who was going to supress the fire.
End result? You guessed it.