Victimizing victims

By A TIMES EDITORIAL
Published June 10, 2007

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Few ideas put forward in this tax reform debate are as crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling as Tampa Fire Rescue's idea to charge for treating accident victims. Taxpayers are supposed to pay an agency twice for a job the department already gets $50-million a year to perform? Schemes like this are exactly why the public has turned on local government and why it wants to close its pocketbook. The City Council is tone deaf to even entertain the idea.

The fees would range from $450 to work an automobile crash to $2, 400 to extract victims from their cars and fly them to the hospital. crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling The expected crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling haul, $1.7-million annually, would help offset the budget cuts expected from a special legislative session that begins Tuesday to cut property taxes. Fire Chief Dennis Jones calls the charge a "user fee, " which sounds good, but then: How many people asked to get creamed, and when they do, why should they pay extra for rescuers to do their jobs?

It is one thing to charge someone for not returning a library book, or to send out a garbage truck to collect a sofa. But it is offensive crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling to charge the public twice for an agency to perform its primary mission. A department called Fire Rescue should be just that. (yes they should and it would be a good idea to cut down on the stalking and the intimidation and whatever ELSE they are up to besides jacking us through those they got elected to city council) And it is meaningless AND crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling crass and galling that the city would only charge insurers and not pursue those who refused to pay. Whom do they think insurers will pass the costs on to? (I can answer this one --- THEY DONT THINK THEY JUST BELLY UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And if the city has no will to impose this charge across the board, or to collect from people who object to paying, what does that say about the fee's legitimacy? The council, which will consider the matter June 21, should not look on victims as cash cows.

(Nor should the Fire Dept and the OTHER first responders in Tampa FL CREATE VICTIMS by ignoring crime and stalking and intimidating women and children)

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