WG tell me where in the consitution the local services you state are mandated ? Each community decides the level of police ,fire and other government services they want . If the local government provides a service for a fee that is not socialism. In a free society, citizens recognize that certain threats cannot be dealt with by individuals alone. The government’s first and only legitimate role is to safeguard the lives, rights, and property of its citizens. Citizens pay a little bit of tax to fund a military to protect against invaders; police and prisons to capture and incarcerate criminals; and certain emergency services to protect against fire, floods, pandemics, or meteorite strikes.To call that socialism is to disistort the legitimate role of government in a free society . But I understand the false narrative that these services are socialist .