Entitlement Texas Style

[JDPriestly]

13. If it was sabotage, the extent to which West's assets should be depleted

before public assets are used to help the victims should depend, in my opinion, on whether West was partially responsible for allowing the sabotage.

The families should be helped. The question is whether West's assets should be completely depleted in order to help them. West's assets, in any case, will probably not be enough to take care of all of the victims.

Texas taxpayers should also pay a big share from state taxes. And property insurers and health insurers should pay their shares.

I think it is going to take a lot of money from various sources to provide all the help that is needed.

I must say that here in California, in our earthquake zone, we buy earthquake insurance. It is not cheap and the deductible is huge. But still we buy it because the alternative is that there will not be enough money to help everyone. (May not be anyway.)

People who live in areas that are subject to floods buy insurance for floods.

It is terrible that this plant was not adequately regulated.