Max Borders says North Carolina cities should charge residents the full cost of water.
In response to a Dome post earlier this morning, the libertarian blogger points out that Seattle and several other Western cities uses full-cost pricing to discourage overconsumption.
Seriously, why is there almost a universal hostility to charging people for what they consume? If you're worried about poor people having water to flush, brush and make Kool-Aid, then charge full cost after X units. But to keep rich people from watering 40 acres and corporations from freeriding off the population, charge people based on scarcity.
Borders says full-cost pricing would turn people into "creative conservationists."
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