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  • _stranger_toPolitical MemesTaxation is theft
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    The United States did not have government-run fire departments until around the time of the American Civil War. Prior to this time, private fire brigades competed with one another to be the first to respond to a fire because insurance companies paid brigades to save buildings.[5]

    No insurance? No firefighters.

    I’ll go leave it to the reader to extrapolate how the rest of that hellscape worked.