by The Literature

Created on: June 21, 2008

Federal government funding to state government is important and needs more active participation of federal administration bodies.

We pay federal tax as well as state tax. So there should be participation of states too.

Government should introduce proper scientific advance alert system to inform the people staying in disaster prone areas; so that people's life and their belonging can be saved or in other words I would say we can minimize the loss.

About tax, we pay tax and we get the tax return while filing the tax return during year end. Question is how much we get and how much we do not get? Where this money goes? Is this been spent on wars -or- is this been spent on health research -or- spent for charity purpose -or- as we mentioned whether fund is allocated for such disaster relief needs?

Allocation of funds! If there is such allocation of funds, then why it is taking so much time to get the benefits to affected people. We have benefits while doing tax returns. Certain amount is saved if you mention that you come from disaster affected areas.

During natural disaster; YES it is important to have more shares of federal funding since state itself cannot take so many burdens in terms of reconstruction of infrastructure and funds.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were two of the most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the America's history. There were flexible Federal grants to States after Hurricane Katrina. Federal funds to states done under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Development Block Grants program to help rebuild damaged housing and other infrastructure. There were enormous amount is been spent by Environmental Protection Agency (Federal Agency) to study the environment condition whenever there is such natural disaster occurs.

Federal government actively participated along with associated bodies to rebuild disaster affected areas; Support to rebuilt many areas like Providing mortgage and foreclosure relief and counseling for homeowners, provide housing and move the displaced to longer-term solutions, Restoring Transportation, Shipping, Public Buildings and Re-Opening Ports, Restoring Communication, Energy and Water, Restoring environment and parks.

After hurricane Katrina and Rita, Federal funding was around $16 billion approx. So it is highly important for federal government bodies to play an important role during such situation.

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