[mtbcoder]

Crowd-funded projects fail all the time. What do you do when your local police or fire department fail to meet their crowd-funding goals? How do you handle those that donate very little or nothing at all but consume large amounts, if not most, of the services/resources? How would an individual possibly have the time to adequately research and figure out what to crowd-fund? How would you stop outside interest groups from manipulating what gets crowd-funded? The list goes on.

[scentoni]

This actually happens in some unfortunate places: "Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee." http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/t/no-pay-...