[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by valo403

People who drive more do pay for more roads, the most direct way being through toll roads.

I recall a house fire somewhere in the rural south to which the local fire department would not attend due to that particular area being beyond the county/municipal line and the neighboring area refusing to pay into a regional tax pool (or something like that). Not completely relevant but kind of interesting.

I don't have a problem with user fees in general, particularly for luxuries.

Not sure roads/fire departments/hospitals are luxuries.

I seem to racall there being some talk about charging for CFD, but I might have that wrong. Appears to be for false alarms:

http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Fire/Page...larm-fees.aspx

False alarm fees

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The Calgary Fire Department (CFD) can assess fees for select, non-emergency services such as response to repeated, preventable false fire alarms.
Through the City of Calgary Fire Fees Bylaw, the ultimate goal of the Calgary Fire Department is to reduce the number of false incidents to which fire crews respond each year.
Fees apply for false alarms within a calendar year:
First false alarm: No charge
Second false alarm: $250
Third false alarm: $250
Four or more false alarms: $500/alarm
The routing of security alarms to the CFD is prohibited and will be subject to a fee of $500 upon a first offence and for every additional alarm.
If a false alarm signal received by the CFD is followed by a secondary call from the building confirming there is no fire and that a fire alarm has been reset, the fee may be reduced by 50 per cent.

I do know that Alberta Transport attempts to recover their costs for clean up/ fire trucks that happen on highways/roads.