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Maybe a a county wide fire protection plan would be a better monument?
Remember, this is a Tennessee County, unlike the North, they are NO local Governments except Corporate Cities i.e. No Townships (and No villages or towns) as those terms are used in the North. This is typical of the South, no local government except cities. If you live outside a city border, you do NOT have any local government that can provide fire protection, all you have is a County Government. The County this incurred in voted 19-1 against fire protection. Sorry, he had a choice, live in a City where his taxes would pay for fire protection, or pay the $75 a year.
Furthermore the people in the County, outside the City borders tend to have higher income then the city residents who are paying for Fire Protection in the form of taxes. Sorry, if you want services you must be willing to pay for them, local government and its Police and Fire Protection is one such service. The people in this County did NOT want to pay for such services so did NOT get such services. The City offered, but only to those people who would pay the city. When the City would out out fires outside the City and bill the people, most of them would not pay. The City then adopted a policy, no payment to the city from NON-city residents, no fire protection for those non-city residents. The City Fire will, and has, saved people;s lives outside the city, but drew the line where all that is being protected is property. The Rich can NOT depend on the poor to bail them out, and that is all that is going on in this case.
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