Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ...
by sokoloff on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:31PM
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Is the federal government paying out $100B for Ian damages from taxes? Or is most of that being paid by private insurance (or even if paid by federal flood insurance, you have to credit back the flood insurance premiums paid rather than assume it’s all coming from taxes).
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Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ...
by akiselev on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:42PM
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Literally no one wants to insure those homeowners. They get insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program - it’s subsidized by the Federal government and it’s still incredibly expensive because the NFIP can’t refuse to insure a property thats going to be destroyed once a decade, so they end up being subsidized by all the properties in the NFIP that weren’t built in insane locations.