Blame the elected politicians you've had over the last 10 years because they didn't have the guts to have a 3% raise every year which would have made things much more palatable. All you folks seem to forget that the workers I firemen ambulance guys etc etc have to get a raise once in awhile also, buildings get old and need to be maintained old fire trucks need to be sold and bought new. If you would look at the rateables you would see that they have gone up every single year and that the fire tax should be tied as well to the total rate of amount as far as an increase in total revenues gotten
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