http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2011/08/31/board-reduces-new-rural-fire-fee/ Ramona's Community Paper Since 1886 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2011/08/31/board-reduces-new-rural-fire-fee/#comment-36016 Rod Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:14:05 +0000 http://ramonasentinel.mscsddev.com/?p=5355#comment-36016 The new fee is obviously a tax. Good thing we have organizations like the Howard Jarvis Foundation to take the State to court to over turn the law/tax. However, there are bigger fish to fry if the State wants to use the "fee" approach to fund operations. Prisons and schools are the two huge costs in our deficit ridden budget. So the State should make maps of high crime areas, like they have for high fire areas. Then impose fees on dwellings in those areas based on the percentage of the prison population from those areas. Why should I pay to keep people in prison from high crime areas if I live in a low crime area? It cost about $10,000 per year, per student to provide an education. Impose fees on the areas with high levels of drop outs and failing grades. Why should I pay for areas with a large population that do not care about the high cost of providing an education? There is no end to the "fee" approach once it gets accepted. The new fee is obviously a tax. Good thing we have organizations like the Howard Jarvis Foundation to take the State to court to over turn the law/tax. However, there are bigger fish to fry if the State wants to use the “fee” approach to fund operations. Prisons and schools are the two huge costs in our deficit ridden budget. So the State should make maps of high crime areas, like they have for high fire areas. Then impose fees on dwellings in those areas based on the percentage of the prison population from those areas. Why should I pay to keep people in prison from high crime areas if I live in a low crime area? It cost about $10,000 per year, per student to provide an education. Impose fees on the areas with high levels of drop outs and failing grades. Why should I pay for areas with a large population that do not care about the high cost of providing an education? There is no end to the “fee” approach once it gets accepted.

]]> http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2011/08/31/board-reduces-new-rural-fire-fee/#comment-15451 Mark Felt Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:59:55 +0000 http://ramonasentinel.mscsddev.com/?p=5355#comment-15451 So I have to pay another $5? Big deal. I lose more money than that in the cushions of my couch each year. So I have to pay another $5? Big deal. I lose more money than that in the cushions of my couch each year.

]]> http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2011/08/31/board-reduces-new-rural-fire-fee/#comment-13534 Heather Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:12:34 +0000 http://ramonasentinel.mscsddev.com/?p=5355#comment-13534 We already pay for fire protection through tax dollars and local fire department fees. This whole idea is absolutely absurd and Governor Brown is trying to play it a manner that makes people think they're getting extra protection when they really aren't. It is an extra fee for the same coverage we already get.. We already pay for fire protection through tax dollars and local fire department fees. This whole idea is absolutely absurd and Governor Brown is trying to play it a manner that makes people think they’re getting extra protection when they really aren’t. It is an extra fee for the same coverage we already get..

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