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To: righthand man
A lot of the rural ambulance services work on the same principle , pay one amount for a yearly membership or pay a higher fee later for thier services.

I'm not familiar with that. Always then there is a life at stake. I'm not one to pay much on taxes but I do think everyone should be covered for that one. There is a big difference between material possessions and someone's life, perhaps that of a child. Ambulance and helicopter is covered for everyone.

188 posted on 02/16/2006 6:28:42 PM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: ozarkgirl

Are school taxes voluntary in your county? What kind of county/local taxes do you pay, and what services do you "give up" compared to cities and larger counties?

I ask because I suspect that even in big cities the fire and police are a very small proportion of county/city costs with most taxes going to income redistribution/welfare programs (such as healthcare, education and social services). I also suspect that you are taxed for education, healthcare and other welfare programs and any countywide fire tax would be small.

I can see where confusion arises in this issue. Residents are forced to pay for education services they do not use (about 75% of local taxes), healthcare services they do not use, but, in this case. are not taxed for fire/police services they may use. It would be easy for someone to assume that "with all these taxes I pay I must be covered for fire and police protection."

I think we would be much better if we had pay-to-play for education, healthcare (at least for non emergency), and social services, but mandatory flat-fee charges (taxes) for police and fire. In that case our taxes would be hundreds of dollars per year not thousands!


324 posted on 02/17/2006 6:49:49 AM PST by evilC ([573]Tag Server Error, Tag not found)
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