There are probably a lot of things that are funded by our tax dollars that you wouldn’t want to give up. One of those things is public safety, and, in particular, your local fire department. In this video, Little Rock Fire Department Public Information Officer Randy Hickmon talks about the things LRFD is able to do with your tax dollars: namely, keep you safe.

For a related point of view, check out this editorial in the Detroit News. It was penned by the president of the Michigan League for Human Services, Gilda Jacobs.

While there’s much disagreement about taxes, we can agree that we need clean drinking water, we need to know fire trucks will come when called and we need safe highways. These are all possible because of tax dollars. So as we near April 17, please pause to appreciate those firefighters, police officers and teachers who are helping us and all the services we enjoy all year.