Should government collect taxes for disaster assistance? (suspect, insurance, money)
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These are all disasters that can cripple an area and destroy everything in their path. The government uses taxes to pay for things like the USGS, NOAA, NWS, and the NHC, to learn about, monitor, and sometimes predict the disasters. In some cases they warn our citizens to help them protect their lives and property. In other cases they assist with insurance claims.
...Living in the United States, for the most part, is sunshine and rainbows. Occasionally doom strikes and local government asks for money and assistance from the federal government to get help with aftermath.
Should we keep doing that?
Or should these services be cut and leave dealing with disasters up to the private sector and local/state government?
These are all disasters that can cripple an area and destroy everything in their path. The government uses taxes to pay for things like the USGS, NOAA, NWS, and the NHC, to learn about, monitor, and sometimes predict the disasters. In some cases they warn our citizens to help them protect their lives and property. In other cases they assist with insurance claims.
...Living in the United States, for the most part, is sunshine and rainbows. Occasionally doom strikes and local government asks for money and assistance from the federal government to get help with aftermath.
Should we keep doing that?
Or should these services be cut and leave dealing with disasters up to the private sector and local/state government?
The FEMA rescue in New Orleans was the largest and most succesful human rescue mission ever run by government.
That should tell us that government cannot help in disasters.
Plus, there is nowhere in the Constitution that authorizes federal disater relief of any type. It aint in there.
The FEMA rescue in New Orleans was the largest and most succesful human rescue mission ever run by government.
That should tell us that government cannot help in disasters.
Plus, there is nowhere in the Constitution that authorizes federal disater relief of any type. It aint in there.
I agree.
...But there are posters who said that we should abolish the NWS and get the private sector to do the work, like the European forecast model does for Europe.
One of the reasons I returned to my hometown from Florida was the expense of hurricanes - shutters, homeowner's insurance rates, flood insurance, building codes for hurricanes....and that's BEFORE a storm hits.
Sorry, I don't want to pay for anyone else's desire to live in disaster prone areas.
One of the reasons I returned to my hometown from Florida was the expense of hurricanes - shutters, homeowner's insurance rates, flood insurance, building codes for hurricanes....and that's BEFORE a storm hits.
Sorry, I don't want to pay for anyone else's desire to live in disaster prone areas.
Millions of Americans live in areas prone to hurricane, areas on fault lines, areas in flood zones, and areas suspect to storms and tornadoes.
...You're paying for it already, regardless of whether or not you want to. It's just a matter of whether or not you want to make things easier on people or not.
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