[shmulkey18]

Of course, we can't implement the obvious and economically rational solution: let the water market operate freely, rather than having the government dictate prices, impose rationing, encourage neighbors to rat out putative "water wasters" and so on. Long live central planning!

[jkyle]

One of the problems in the California water market is free enterprise shipping it out of state.[1]

Water, air, these belong to the commons and should be allocated and used primarily for the sustenance and benefit of the commons. Not private industry.

[1] http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/03/05/bottling-wate...

[s73v3r]

Yay! Let the rich be the only ones who can afford water!

[shmulkey18]

Yay! Let the rich be the only ones who can afford computers! Shoes! Books! Potting soil! Clothing! Housing! Cars!

The list of horrors that the free market visits upon the non-rich is truly shocking. After all, by your logic all non-regulated goods must be affordable only by the rich.

The level of economic ignorance in this thread is stupefying.

[s73v3r]

Those things are not in short supply. The level of economic ignorance in your comment is stupefying.