Well, we used to have a voluteer fire department. You had to buy a $25 sticker (probably $60 in today’s dollars), and post it on the house.
If the fire truck showed up, they would let your house burn down, if you did not have a sticker. This was a shock to me. My hometown volunteer fire department always helped everyone, even other counties and cities.
So the county got together and voted to form a fire protection district, paid for with property taxes, but no government honcho cramed it down our throats, so I always felt that was a legitimate public service.
Considering I have heard about 911 calls that came in from McDonald’s drive thru cause the cashier would not do what a customer wanted, maybe a user fee is appropriate. Did they allow the people to vote on it? If not, they should.
He only uses the 911 stuff as a springboard to get to his main ideas which are:
“We’re in for some hard times. We need to pull in our belts, pay more taxes, demand more value for our taxes, and say no to an ideology that requires converting our health money into corporate profits.”