This is why in the Netherlands they made a separate tax to pay for flood defense that the government can't touch. Because every time the economy went down the

This is why in the Netherlands they made a separate tax to pay for flood defense that the government can't touch. Because every time the economy went down the drain the first things that got cut from the budget were the dikes (it's no coincidence the worst flood in history was in 1953 when the great recession, WW2 and colonial war drained the treasury). And there's always another storm.