FREE REPUBLIC resides in California.
I live here and never vote Dem, a fat lot of good it does me. I also live in the mountains and will be hit with this “fee”. It’s bad enough to still be charged property taxes on a house that’s lost more than half its value because of the policies of the liberals, now they want to soak me some more on the pretext of fighting fires. I’m forced to pay for flood insurance, too - and I’m on top of a mountain!
To appease their Green God, they’re also building giant transmission lines from the windmill and solar farms further north through my community, increasing the fire danger they now want me to pay extra for. And we don’t even get the electricity.
There’s a lot more, but don’t get me started on these bastards. They’ve taken Ronald Reagan’s once-great state and turned it into a third world crap hole.
Wow. Broadbrush much?