The Free Market Solution

A city in California is now charging people $300 per call for 911 access.:

Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.

But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year which allows them to call 9-1-1 as many times as necessary.

Or, there's the option of not signing up for the annual fee. Instead, they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help.

"A $300 fee and you don't even want to be thinking about that when somebody is in need of assistance," said Tracy resident Greg Bidlack.

Residents will soon receive the form in the mail where they'll be able to make their selection. No date has been set for when the charges will go into effect.

This is of course the inevitable free-market Libertarian answer to the question: “Why should I let those politicians spend my hard-earned tax money on services that overwhelmingly benefit poor people?”

It's the "pay only for what you use" model. Well, congratulations, free-marketeers, now you can rest easy knowing that the homeless will now be truly dying on the streets instead of wasting your hard-earned income.