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What would actually happen under Strawman's 'free-market' system is the following: Because fires of major intensity may not occur for 50 -100 years, the private firefighting companies would wind back expensive infrastructure to cut costs and raise their fees for profit. When the next one in 100 year fire comes to Canberra, the three fire trucks left would not attend because they would not know which houses were insured by which companies. The insurance companies would then goes broke and the Directors would take up residence in Majorca and develop serious lung problems; escaping the following Royal Commission, which finds 'perhaps that was'nt a good idea'. As for Stawman's simplistic "food" analogy, all that need be said is "trains"! VOR - TheVoiceOfReason
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