THEY DO!!! They pay taxes just like the rest of us.
This not a class warfare thing, it's a whats fair is fair thing.
Fair? You mean like taking away a road that has been there for over 50 years?
If they have the right to a taxpayer supported comfortable beachfront lifestyle with paved road access, then I have the right to a taxpayer supported comfortable beachfront lifestyle with convienent paved access too.
IT ISN'T AN ACCESS ROAD!!! How many times do I have to say that? It is North Carolina Highway 12. It is a road just like any other one in the country.
And what about Corolla?. Last I heard, they have no paved road access either.
Then you are as behind the times as I thought. The road from the Dare County line to Corolla has been paved since the early 80s.
If they can pave a road throught the national park to Hatteras, how come they can't pave a road through a national park to Corolla?
See above and get a clue.
A person I know retired to Corolla a few years back, and he payed his own way to get there and build. Should the taxpayers have been responsible for his expenses also?
Apparently you don't know him very well.
And you are completely ignoring my points about floods, tornados, snow, earthquakes, etc. Can you please tell us where it is OK to live?
Actually, I believe the area I'm thinking of is north of Corolla, I know people who were hauling building materials up the beach w/ 4 wheel drives as late as '94. I think Feds had rules there were to be no paved roads along the Back Bay refuge.
As for the road being there for decades, well, God seems to have cut an easement through the State of North Carolina's, and I don't care how much of my money you spend, when He gets ready, he'll do it again.
You'll have to discuss that with God, I can't help you with directing hurricanes.
There are two distinct issues here, although you are trying to morph them into one:
(1) replacing a road (which makes sense) and
(2) providing federally back flood insurance
Replacing the road makes sense, but providing federally backed flood insurance is not. If you provide federally-backed flood insurance, why not fire insurance and homeowners insurance? It just doesn't make sense to provide one and not the other.
We should not have to subsidize flood insurance. The folks in flood plains should move, OR buy insurance from a private insurer -- no the american people..