Extragovernmental activities have crowded out firefighting in Jackson County.
Fill the Boot fundraisers and annual begging letters aren’t bridging the gap between allotted dollars and actual costs for a couple of Jackson County’s busiest fire departments, Cullowhee and Cashiers-Glenville.
An attempt to increase countywide taxes for the old, stodgy notions of public safety and property protection failed, and so county commissioners will consider district taxes for two of its neediest fire departments. Personally, I think the un-money of tax waivers would be better spent wooing the dishonest, incompetent, or competiphobicly control-freaked corporate giants who claim they can’t control their bottom lines. Don’t you?
It goes like this: Politicians want to be all things to all people (except fiscal conservatives), and they expand their powers by funding the least essential items and whining there isn’t enough for the essentials. Then, they suppose The Wee People are too dense to see what they’re doing.
