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本帖最后由 ztoa789 于 2011-12-11 00:12 编辑
那JJYY肯定是如同中了头彩一般，那艾自慰不弄到半身不髓是不会停的。
米国田纳西，消防员看着房子被烧掉而不救，因为房主没付75美元的年费。
No Fire Fee? Let Your House Burn!
Firefighters in Tennessee watched a home burn to the ground this week because the owners hadn’t paid a $75 annual fire protection subscription fee, MSNBC reports.
Firefighters responded when the home in Obion County, Tenn., caught fire, but didn’t extinguish it because the fee that the nearby town of South Fulton collects hadn’t been paid. Last year, another home — which also contained three dogs and a cat — in Obion County also burned to the ground for the same reason.
The South Fulton mayor, David Crocker, said the city makes no exceptions. “There’s no way to go to every fire and be able to keep up the manpower, the equipment, and just the funding for the fire department,” he said, according to MSNBC. Crocker also noted that firefighters will help people in danger, whether they have paid or not.
Nearby Blount County, Tenn., also has a subscription service, but the fire chief says the same situation wouldn’t happen there, according to The Daily Times. Blount County charges a $100 annual fee, but nonsubscribers can pay $2,200 for the first two hours firefighters respond to a scene, and $1,100 for each additional hour.
After last year’s fire, the Obion County commission voted to expand subscription-based service in the county, over the objections of people like fire chief Bob Reavis, who said, “Subscriptions should be left to newspapers and magazines,” Time reported.
Statistics show that in communities with firefighting subscription fees, less than 70% pay them. The subscription rate can be to as low as 40% in the early years of a subscription campaign, according to Time.
Defenders of a free market philosophy point outthat these situations don’t show the free market at work, since there is a monopoly on firefighting. Other critics suggest that this shows the limitations of a “small government” doctrine.
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发表于 2011-12-11 08:50
