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Who’s it supposed to be paid by?

• teawrecks 5y ago
  Insurance
  • loonster 5y ago
    The premiums are paid by the government. No sorry that doesn't shift the cost to anyone else.
    • Retric 5y ago
      Premiums and payouts are very separate pools of money. Life insurance payouts for example can in theory be consistently be larger than premiums.
• loonster 5y ago
  The people that were ultimately responsible. Which I would argue is the voters. It's a neat trick. Lawyers take 600m out of the voters back pocket, hand back 400m, and the people rejoice.
  • gruez 5y ago
    >It's a neat trick. Lawyers take 600m out of the voters back pocket, hand back 400m, and the people rejoice. and that's fine, because you're not taking $60 out of everyone's pocket and giving back $40, they're taking $60 out of everyone's pocket and giving $4000 to the people affected. The point of the lawsuit is to force redistributing wealth to compensate the people affected, not as some sort of money-maker.
  • vkou 5y ago
    Who do you think should pay for this? Canada? The Republican Party of Michigan? Rick Snyder?
    • loonster 5y ago
      I think it should be dismissed. Criminal lawsuits should be allowed to go forward.
      • gruez 5y ago
        > I think it should be dismissed. So you're against compensating the victims financially? >Criminal lawsuits should be allowed to go forward. You do realize that this judgement doesn't preclude criminal prosecution? The criminal courts and civil courts operate independently.
      • vkou 5y ago
        The state of Michigan was responsible for damaging the health of the people of Flint, Michigan. If the people of Michigan elect clowns to run the state, who cause harm to <some group of people>, the people of Michigan should be responsible for making amends. It doesn't make one whit of difference that the harmed people were, or were not part of Michigan. This creates an incentive to not elect clowns.