jonny5
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It's entirely relevant. Since:
1) NJ's damage is about double that of Florida's Catastrophic Fund.
2) NJ never gets hit by storms like this.
3) NJ's constitution basically ties the legislature's hands.
4) Slapping NJ with a big fat multiyear tax, after getting slammed by a massive hurricane, is kicking a man when he's down.
Florida HASN'T. They're short $12.5 billion, or about 43%. Their solution is to either go to the feds, or reduce the fund.
And again, they tried to get $29 million from the feds. Not exactly an indication that they're independent.
Your statement was that its unrealistic for states to have billions put aside for disaster aid. Florida, heck, NJ puts billions away for diaster aid. Ipso facto, its real.