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Everyone subsidizes everyone else. I subsidize roads for rural residents and lower rural wages and property values subside my food. That’s called being a nati
by os2warpman 2y ago
Everyone subsidizes everyone else.
I subsidize roads for rural residents and lower rural wages and property values subside my food.
That’s called being a nation state.
If you claim that no one should live where there are hurricanes I will reply “or heat waves or blizzards or tornados or floods or inadequate arable land or inadequate water or forest fires or earthquakes” and we’ll be stuck in limbo unable to live anywhere.
- EA-3167 2y agoI agree that we're all in it together, but we're not all subsidizing each other. Some states are highly dependent on Federal funds, others are not. CA for example contributes tens of billions more than it takes from the Federal government, enough to cover the entire state budget of one of the worst in that regard, Kentucky... more than 5X. https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700 https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the... I'm not sure why talking about the wisdom of living in a fire corridor or flood plain is somehow taboo, especially when the people paying are generally not the people living in those places. Even setting climate change aside it's an issue, as we see in places like coastal Florida, or communities in and around LA when fires come. Just sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "Everyone has to live somewhere" as though the country is full to capacity is really unhelpful.