$178,000,000 Fish in the San Joaquin River
Wouldn’t it be nice to have no concern whatsoever for cost because someone else has to pick up the tab? You could have whatever you want, without asking the price. Say you want salmon to spawn in the San Joaquin River. You could pay $178,000,000 per fish.
Environmentalists are delighted to have found Chinook salmon spawning in the river for the first time in 65 years. A total of five fish were found, one of which died.
This achievement was decades in the making:
In 1988, then-Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) developed the first version of the Central Valley Improvement Act (CVPIA). That same year, the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit claiming that Friant Dam violated environmental laws.
The Friant Dam is crucial for farmers in the Central Valley. But fish are more important than farmers — at least to those who believe that food originates in restaurants and supermarkets rather than on farms.
In 1992, Congress pushes through the CVPIA. This action single-handedly shifted water and money from Valley farmers by driving money to environmental organizations and sending water to the ocean.
In 2006, a Settlement is reached and by 2009, the Democrat-led Congress and President Obama enact the Settlement.
That’s how bureaucrats and environmental activists produced the five fish.
Cost estimates of this effort range from $890 million to $2 billion to restore 153 miles of the river from Friant Dam to the confluence of the Merced River.
Between 250,000 and 360,000 acre-feet of water are specifically dedicated to fish habitat on the San Joaquin. …
Taking the conservative cost estimate, each of the five fish caught cost taxpayers and water users $178,000,000.
The problem with capitalism is that it mandates prices. There are no $178,000,000 fish for sale on the free market, because no one would voluntarily pay that much for a fish. That’s why we need Big Government to replace the free market with coercion. Only then can we have $178,000,000 fish.
Green Leftists take over California. Congratulations America you just spent $178 Million per fish and flushed millions of gallons of precious water out to the Pacific Ocean. https://t.co/WUWKltEIU8
— Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) April 27, 2019
On a tip from R F. Hat tip: American Thinker.
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