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Old 10-06-2010, 08:52 AM
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Lmao!

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Old 10-09-2010, 03:16 PM
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Much ado about nothing. It was a friggin' trailer.

http://www.newsrunner.com/display-ar...dn%27t+pay+fee

I guess the media succeeded in getting a bunch of people indignant and pissed. Mission accomplished.
My understanding is that fire departments will not even bother to attempt to put out a trailer firs as they go up like Christmas trees. So if the poor sod had paid the $75 they still would have stood around and watch it burn.

Converting taxes to fees is a favourite Republican trick - "See we lowered taxes" never mind that fees are the most regressive form of taxation.
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Old 10-11-2010, 09:31 AM
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Come on Rob, municipalities all over the place around here are doing it, no tie to party, they just never met a dollar they didn't like, and folks are dumb.

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The one time it was done here recently was under Bobby Haircut, the dumb Republican, and it is still a regressive tax.
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