[GatorFan]

If you shift the fire department service charge to the insurance company to off set property tax decrease, then the insurance company will increase premiums to off set their pay outs. We all pay one way or the other. If property taxes are lowered, some other service will be increased.

[Fourpar]

A tax by any other name is still......A TAX!
Seems like a way to increase budgets without the prerequisite "representation" and control by those elected to exercise fiscal responsibility. A cop-out as it were by county legislators. :dontknow: