[sig226]

i wonder if max knows how many rural missouri fire departments still collect an annual fee from each property owner and won’t respond if the guy didn’t pay.

[chrisser]

i wonder if max knows how many rural missouri fire departments still collect an annual fee from each property owner and won’t respond if the guy didn’t pay

Max is probably used to the typical urban system - where taxes are high and so much $$ flows to the local government that it appears that government can do practically anything and it's only evil conservatives who are preventing the benevolent largess.

Of course, the graft and corruption on a scale that would make the mafia jealous that occurs in the typical urban government is ignored, or justified, by these nutcases.

They prefer to live the illusion than open their eyes to the real world.