[Chickensoup]

Should the tax payer be on the Hook when San Fransisco falls apart after the next big quake hits???

I dont think so.

[bikepacker67]

Should the tax payer be on the Hook when San Fransisco falls apart after the next big quake hits???

Cities become cities because free-market capital creates them for the natural (and sometimes transitory) advantage they present (think Boom Town).

If we rebuild cities using public funds (for sympathetic reasons) how isn't that unlike the "Central Planning" of the Marxists?