However, I feel that the families/friends/survivors who requested the rescue should be billed for the costs. UNLESS this is a normally taxpayer funded operation
I strenuously disagree.
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We all pay taxes for services we'll never use that are intended for people in situations we pray that we and our friends and family will never find ourselves in.
Didn't I say "
UNLESS this is a normally taxpayer funded operation"?
And why should SAR
not be a normally taxpayer funded operation?
If you're in another state, are you supposed to know whether SAR is taxpayer funded and to what extent it is taxpayer-funded, in that state or local jurisdiction?
Are you supposed to know in advance whether the National Guard helicopter that might fly looking for you can write that flight off as training? Or might they already have fulfilled their training requirement and so your rescue becomes a taxpayer burden?
Is the family supposed to know that?
Should they pick from a menu of SAR activity that they can afford? Go bankrupt to get some help? Should everyone have to buy SAR insurance? It's not just climbers and hikers who need SAR on occasion.
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