If someone doesn't have medical insurance, you don't kick them to the curb. You treat them and bill them, and then sell their house if you have to to recover your expenses.
Which is hard to do if you let it burn to the ground.
Funny, I’m a believer in PERSONAL RESPONSIBITY.
You have a right to be as stupid as you want to be, but there is a cost that is accessed for that stupidity. This idiot opted to save $75 and risk his $200,000 home. Is there a nicer word than ‘idiot’?
Why are you not asking why the homeowner didn’t write a check to cover a very basic and very cheap service? C’mon we are talking about $75 for the year - in a county that cannot afford to support a Fire Department.
Again, even if they did access $1,000 or even $10,000 for the service - who would ANYONE pay $75 the following year? Wouldn’t eveyrone just take their chances? Meanwhile, what keeps the Fire Department fiscally viable? Good intentions?
This is just like Home Owners Insurance, Earth Quake Insurance, Medical Insurance, or Car Insurance. If you drive your car without insurance and total it - do you then cry and demand that your insurance agent take your $100 check and fix $15,000 worth of damage? Same thing.