If there is a hurricane I approve of my tax dollars going to relieve Americans who were in the way. In addition I donate my own money to help. When there are wildfires I don’t object to tax dollars help rebuild and I add my own money to help. When 9-11 hit the entire country donated to help NYC including replacing fire trucks with pennies collected by school kids. Why would this be any different?
I want to ask those people who don’t want the wall built because it doesn’t affect them if they would expect help if a disaster hit their city or state.
THANKS! I added an update in your honor:
[UPDATE: An alert commentator on this article at Free Republic reminds us of President Ronald Reagan’s appeals for students to send in their pennies to restore the Statute of Liberty. The private donations to save Lady Liberty were so extensive that “they wrote a book about it,” The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story. A private foundation raised $70 million, of which $63 million came from corporate deals negotiated largely by Lee Iacocca. See Corporations Saved the Statue of Liberty: A new book details how corporate America pitched in big time when Lady Liberty needed a facelift. H/T McGavin999]