In California, Stingy Water Users Are Fined in Drought, While the Rich Soak

[hunter]

11. Yards here require require irrigation or they revert to dry dirt.

We let a lot of stuff in our yard die, but it's been painful to see the fruit trees suffer.

Our one almond tree and our three apple trees produced almost nothing this year.

It's entirely obvious that lower and middle class people cut their water use radically, frankly because they need the money, and most wealthy people not at all, some of them even increasing their water use to make up for rain that didn't fall.

I think many wealthy people in the U.S.A. are the scum that rises to the top of a stagnant pond.

The U.S.A. needs a strongly progressive tax system that redistributes the bulk of taxes collected directly to people who are now struggling; by building homes for the homeless, increasing the water and energy efficiency of average homes, medical and dental care for everyone, training and hiring more teachers for rough communities where students require more individual attention from responsible adults... those sorts of things.