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>> Geez, it's about time you made a bit of sense Strawman I like to throw a bone for the left every now and then :-) >> Even where insurance companies didn't pick up the role of fighting fires, say
>> rural or regional Australia, surely communities would pool together and do so. Rural or regional Australia still has insurance, and the economic factors would still
apply. The farming lobbies have been very effective at convincing mainstream
Australia that market failure occurs as soon as you step out of a city. It just
isn't true. I guess I am suspicious about the 'community pool' approach because
eventually it could become mandatory, and we would end up where we
started. For instance, what do you do when the local council starts partially
funding a community service? Governments also
give corporate
welfare, but this is harder to justify than welfare to 'blessed' community
services like fire-fighters.
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