Jesus was a Commie!
I think it's time for Gulf states and the peninsula to recognize that living on a beach or anywhere on a barrier island is asking for it. If you are wealthy and want to keep rebuilding, on your own dime, every time your house turns to toothpicks, have at it, but you shouldn't ask taxpayers to fund your idiocy. Tax money should be helping poorer folk in Dunbar, rather than one percenters on Sanibel.
Rebuilding mansions requires adequate insurance coverage which the one per centers pay handsomely for. Utilities and causeways, etc, are for everyone, rich or poor, hence the need for government funds which use tax money the one per centers also pay for at much higher rates.
So? None of that negates the point that humble Dunbar should be getting the help that more scenic and affluent places are getting. No one is questioning bridges and power lines. But homes may have to move inland. Building mansions that keep washing into the sea is wasteful. Insurance underwriters are already pulling out of low lying areas. Beaches on a barrier island are great, but those residents who serve the frolicking tourists need safer dwellings away from the shore. Happy if working class people get help, but subsidizing views for the rich is not where taxes should be going. We already proscribe building submersible houses along many rivers, where people are disallowed from building in flood plains. Time to recognize that many shores in Florida are similar hazard areas.
Comeback sometime when you are sober.
Choosing a barrier Island( or Marthas Vinyard) to live in or play at is an individual choice an adds to the diversity of lifestyles , not to mention jobs and livelihoods.
If they are hazards to you stay inSouth Dakota.
