(09-15-2018, 12:06 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(09-15-2018, 08:30 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Yes.

No one is saying you should be forced to leave or that they don’t often exaggerate storms. But they don’t usually give this much attention to every storm that comes through, so I’m still not sure what point is being made since those examples don’t mean you shouldn’t take steps toward self preservation.

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(09-15-2018, 11:54 AM)TJBender Wrote: Now you're asking the government to draw a big red line, which is something we've seen plenty of evidence that they're incapable of doing.

There's a difference between mean and inhumane. Even putting the inhumane argument aside, how are you going to enforce it? Send them to collections? Good luck with that, for all kinds of reasons. Have the IRS garnish their wages? Good luck with that, too--you've just weaponized the IRS, and your political career is over. You'd have to make it a criminal offense to stick, and the first time you try to send someone to jail for nonpayment, the Eighth Amendment would be drawn into the conversation. There's really no winning from a practical standpoint, even if you are of the opinion that it's not morally wrong to hand someone a bill for rescuing them from their destroyed house in their now-former neighborhood.

You do realize that the government already charges for many or types of rescues, right? This isn’t anything new. You’re also sensationalizing how the process would go. It’s all civil, and if the fee isn’t paid then they go to civil court. It certainly doesn’t have to be criminal. A lot of county ordinances are civil penalties, and those tickets you get from traffic cameras too. This isn’t as cruel, difficult, and uncommon as you’re making it.