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> voluntary tipping

"Looks like 341 Maple Street is burning down."

"Eh, let it burn, they're terrible tippers."

> usage fees

"We'd be happy to put out your house fire, sir. Just swipe your MasterCard here."

I imagine that fire services would work more like insurance companies, most (all?) streets would be come toll roads, etc.

And when you can't afford the insurance for the fire department? How are these people taken care of by such a system? I'm sure we all know people who've hit very hard times at some point in their life through no fault of their own. As much as I like the idea of Libertarianism it can't see how these people would make it through those times.

For the record, I'm not not a libertarian, and I'm not proposing or defending this system - but smacktoward's comment was just too silly to even be called a strawman argument.

And when you can't afford the insurance for the fire department?

I would assume it would be the same if you couldn't afford your property taxes in today's system. You don't own a house?

I think the answer is "sell the house and move somewhere cheaper."

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