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Wouldn't changing the price agriculturists pays for water be exactly the kind of regulation you're deriding? Though perhaps you are referring to the price of s
by stdgy 12y ago
Wouldn't changing the price agriculturists pays for water be exactly the kind of regulation you're deriding?
Though perhaps you are referring to the price of something else?
- EdSharkey 12y agoI would prefer if we just remove the government distortion in price of water that drives down the price farmers have paid and force them to pay a market-driven rate. (Deregulate, then?) Perhaps if they would pay the market-dictated rate, smart farmers will get to keep their farms by choosing to not do idiotic things like plant rice patties and walnut groves in a desert. Water is one of those scarce resources that have alternative uses. If we would just charge farmers what the water in California is truly worth, rational decision making will return to agriculture there. Or, agriculture could move to a more suitable place.