# For-pay fire department lets man's house burn

<http://www.salon.com/2010/10/04/libertarian_fire_department/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

There is a sort of childish taunt that liberals use against proper libertarians sometimes, in which they humorously propose that the fire department be privatized, because the "invisible hand" of the market would be more efficient at putting out house fires. And then everyone has a laugh -- the liberals because they think they just scored a really great rhetorical point, and the libertarians because they are high.

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