Reply #16: What's inherently unfair is the fact that so many states in harm's way

[SoCalDem]

have never fully addressed the need to have a special fund available to help people when these disasters occur. This is often done via TAXATION, and many states with high tax rates routinely have these funds.

Another issue is that so many states'- rights states have cast a blind eye to floodplains when it comes to issuing building permits, and they have put people in harm's way.

When people are allowed to/encouraged to build and invest their life's worth into a business or a home in a vulnerable area, it;s the ultimate fault of bureaucrats who allowed it to happen.

These states routinely ask for (and get) federal money to prop up their own failed vision and leadership, and in the end the people who can afford the losses the least, also get the least in after-disaster aid.:(

States that brag about how much they hate "big-gubbmint", and how proud they are for having no taxes or low taxes, are also telling their citizens that if they ever have a disaster, they are truly on their own or at the mercy of the feds to bail them out.