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Other states might grow more if their California competition wasn't subsidized so heavily with water.


Do you have any evidence of this that they are not growing more because California subsidizes water usage?


Just basic economics. Subsidies increase supply which reduces prices. Lower prices discourage production. Net result is that production shifts to the place with the subsidies.


So your suggestion is to get rid of the subsidies?


My suggestion is that we'd be better off if they weren't there. That doesn't necessarily suggest a plan of action, though, since just dropping long-existing subsidies can cause a lot of problems. I don't know what the solution is, but I think the goal should be to charge farmers something like the fair value of the water they consume.




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