There seem to be no boundaries today on how our tax dollars are spent or wasted. Death, bailouts, foreign aid, sports, shrimp on treadmills and someone building beside the ocean. When the building gets washed away, why are the taxpayers expected to pay for building back on the property?
Non-working Americans live as well as the working, taxpaying folks, but it’s the working folks’ tax dollars that the non-workers live on. When our house burned, we had no insurance and no money, but we didn’t get FEMA funds from the government. We put it back one piece at a time.
Whatever happened to the non-whining American who takes care of his own problems without crying to government? Politicians spending tax dollars so they will get re-elected makes for unhappy taxpayers.
JAY C. WHEELER
Jonesborough
beresponsible writes:
February 28, 2013
10:42 PM
I agree with you. The gov. should not pay for rebuilding after a flood, tornado, fire, etc. The owners should have to carry insurance that would pay for that. We should stop rewarding those that do not pay and take care of themselves. Instead the gov. hands them housing, food stamps, health insurance, etc.