That's one way to cut water usage

A painful truth from California - from the Daily Caller:

Economists: Tax Organic Products To Solve CA Water Crisis
Environmentally-savvy economists have a novel solution for tackling the California water crisis that may anger some on the left: tax organic products.

Why tax organic products? Organic farms, for example, don’t use water nearly as efficiently as conventional farms do, argue economists with the Property and Environment Research Center and the Hoover Institution. Price the inefficiencies into products and consumers will use less of it, the economists say.

Economists Terry Anderson and Henry Miller wrote that “water-policy analysts agree that California’s thirst for water won’t be significantly reduced until consumers are faced with a more realistic price for the ‘clear gold.’”

“In that spirit, we propose a revenue-neutral tax on all organic products — food, linens, clothing, pillows, tobacco, etc,” they wrote.

And how are they going to deal with that linen made with fabric from Thailand? Or tobacco from Virginia. This is just more of a money grab than any real solution. California needs to build more water storage systems (ie: Dams) like New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona. None of them are having this much problem with the drought...