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Privatize emergency rescue and stop socializing the negative outcomes of other people s behaviours onto the rest of us.
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Yes. Not just in hurricanes either. If you get lost in the woods 100 yards from a McDonalds or call 9/11 from a corn maze then you should foot the bill not the taxpayers.
The Coast Guard are out there anyway and it provides needed practice for them to do rescue. The vast majority of their work involves recreational boaters...so "conservatives" might say "let 'em die".
But this is yet another question (many here similar) of whether we are a country....or just whether we are a profit seeking corporation. It appears, to many, the later is the ideal.
As a hiker I remember a article in a magazine called Backpacker asking the same question. If you need to be rescued from breaking your leg, bit by a snake, etc. We all pay taxes too have someone to come up us if we get over our heads or stuck somewhere where the weather has turned bad. Now if you need a helicopter lift or something out of the norm, I would think that’s a different story.
Well, consider how much taxes someone pays over the course of a decade or even longer, if they have one incident were a helicopter evac is needed, it seems they would have already paid enough in taxes to justify such a large expense.
Maybe emerg services are like car insurance companies...'just give us your money and go away, do not expect to get anything in return'. lol
Its a free country. People can't be ordered out of their homes. Also, they contribute to the emergency services with their taxes. So when conditions allow for a rescue and if they need it, they get rescued free of charge. Simple really...
Charged no. Many stay behind as they really have no where to go and don't feel safe in a shelter. A written warning should be given instead. However of they reside in a known flood zone that is under mandatory evacuation year after year, that's a different story.
Some stay behind to protect their personal property and the biggest asset they own, their home. Though foolish, some are hell bent on protecting materialistic possessions while putting their own lives as well as other (first responders) in harms way.
What happens during a mandatory evacuation is that many undesirables know that an entire neighborhood is abandoned and it means to them it's open season to loot.
On the other side, if they are forced to evacuate, and it turns out to be not needed, should they be reimbursed for expenses and the items that get looted from their home?
A few years ago, the weather channel set up in my town, warning of an F5 tornado and urging evacuation. The storm missed the area completely and went 60 miles south of here.
On the other side, if they are forced to evacuate, and it turns out to be not needed, should they be reimbursed for expenses and the items that get looted from their home?
A few years ago, the weather channel set up in my town, warning of an F5 tornado and urging evacuation. The storm missed the area completely and went 60 miles south of here.
Its only fair that people are reimbursed for expenses related to evacuating (gas, hotel, etc).
IF they expect people to come up with the money to do this, why should we not expect them to come up with money to reimburse?
Privatize emergency rescue and stop socializing the negative outcomes of other people s behaviours onto the rest of us.
The marketplace is full of answers to such questions.
So that a profit driven entity can decide if its in their best interests to provide a high level of service?
They discovered during Katrina many did not have the resources to evacuate. That's why that stadium was filled with people.
A storm coming toward Houston had mandatory evacuation from low areas. Many people left, including those on high ground. Each person was driving one of the 4 family cars. They sat on the freeway for days. Gas stations ran out of gasoline. The supply trucks couldn't replenish the stations due to gridlock. It took my neighbor 27 hours to go 75 miles. They finally turned around and came home. There was totally no need for them to leave in the first place. But the cars were bumper to bumper from Houston to Dallas.
I know, it was chaos. There was no reason for people fifty miles inland to evacuate. Mandatory evacuations now go pretty smoothly.
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