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Prices are low right now. Here in Texas you can get one for $3500 (6x8) and that includes delivery and installation for below ground.
If it were to become mandatory prices would shoot sky high because everyone HAS to get one then.
FEMA certification will cost you another $300 on top of the $3500.
You don't believe that hundreds of new companies wouldn't sprout up manufacturing them? Instant job creation!
Once again: What things in each family's budget, should they reduce or do without entirely, to provide this additional money for storm shelters most of them don't need?
Workers get paid and then they spend their money on housing and consumer goods which has a multiplier effect.
..at the expense of someone else that no longer has that money to spend. Having said that I don;t see the issue with building storm shelters in schools, forcing the general public to do it is another matter.
Once again: What things in each family's budget, should they reduce or do without entirely, to provide this additional money for storm shelters most of them don't need?
Maybe there could be a tax credit for building a storm shelter in tornado alley. Also many of them, such as the ones for schools would be funded by the taxpayer. After all we should be saving a few billion every year now that we are withdrawing from Iraq.
..at the expense of someone else that no longer has that money to spend. Having said that I don;t see the issue with building storm shelters in schools, forcing the general public to do it is another matter.
You don't need to increase taxes in order to fund a storm shelter project. Just take some money from our bloated military budget.
I think of those poor school kids in Oklahoma being told to "hold on to a wall". In the meanwhile, as televised coverage shows, the whole school is nearly obliterated. But we can't build friggin' holes in the ground?!!! And yes I know the ground is hard, but that's what dynamite is for.
I've never understood why schools in Tornado Alley don't have have some kind of underground shelter.
I've never understood why schools in Tornado Alley don't have have some kind of underground shelter.
Because that might cost ~ $100,000. [MOD CUT/off topic]
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