Recently California has been experiencing many wildfires that are destroying thousands of homes in their southern and Los Angelos regions.
There has been widespread recent incompetence within the local governments here, leading to an inability to fight these fires.
Why is this our problem? Simple.
While California, which is apparently the 3rd largest economy in the world, begs for federal tax dollars, the rest of our insurance rates go up. California has laws prohibiting risk-area premiums, so insurance companies will be seeking profit by other means (increasing the national insurance rates). How can the 3rd largest economy in the world ask for a hand-out? They have plenty of money to help the victims of the fires. What they don’t have is money backed by physical resources of other states/the rest of the country. See, if the federal government sends aid to rich California, they begin to obtain the wealth of the other 49 states.
California has massive wildfires every year that cost billions in loss.
They should be much more prepared, seeing how this is an ongoing regular occurrence there. California doesn’t need federal aid. They need to spend their own money to help their own people.