California Just Passed A $1 Billion Tax On The Whole Country That No One Noticed

zero hedge ^ | 9/2/16 | Tyler Durden

[Nachum]

California used to be a wonderful state...

[Nachum]

ping

[Dilbert San Diego]

Just waiting for someone to make fun of the statement, that California produces 2/3 of the nation’s fruits and nuts...............

[trisham]

I need a greenhouse.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It was wonderful until the lunatics took over. Now they are sending out their acolytes out to ruin other states.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The little nagging logician inside me has to ask....

If workers in other industries get OT after 8 hours, why shouldn’t ag workers? Seems kind of arbitrary.

[TheConservator]

Prices will rise. Producers in other states, noting the price rise, will increase production. California will lose market share.

How clever of California to effectively gift its job base to other states!

Economics is not that hard.

[Carriage Hill]

It’s the law here in PA, too.
In 1989, when I started my Family’s farm and nursery business, we accidentally paid OT, and the State’s Labor Dept and Ag Dept went nuts about it. We had to pay straight time to 40hrs, and start a new 40hr check for anything over that, at straight time.

[BBB333]

Try hydroponics.

Really.

[eyeamok]

All they need to do now is shut off the Water to the San Joaquin Valley and let half of the Farmland go fallow. Oh wait they already did that!!

[Texas Fossil]

“California is an agricultural powerhouse”

WAS (past tense)

[ntnychik]

2/3 of the nation’s fruits and nuts...

I was silently smirking.

[trisham]

I don’t have the room or the light. I’m thinking maybe I could visit some salvage places, assuming that there are any nearby. People often discard old windows and doors. I’d have to run electricity out to it.

[factoryrat]

Mexico, and the rest of central and south america are increasingly replacing california as produce suppliers.

California is too expensive to grow produce in due to lack of water resources.

Greenhouses in Canada of all places can compete with California now.

Let the valleys revert back to desert. California has become the welfare state for mexico.

[rockinqsranch]

Leave it to a Democrat legislature, and Governor to screw up the works. They never fail when it comes to screwing up.

[Mariner]

There's no past tense to it.

CA still produces more ag than any other two states combined.

Including Texas.

[CodeToad]

If no one noticed then how did the article get written?

Journalists: Dumber than the dumbest liberal.

[Talisker]

Prices will rise. Producers in other states, noting the price rise, will increase production. California will lose market share. How clever of California to effectively gift its job base to other states! Economics is not that hard.

Exactly. It's not that economics is hard, it's just ruthless. Because people are involved making choices, liberals think it's a soft science that can be manipulated by various mindgames, regulations and taxes to fit their political correctness model. But economics is as fixed as the law of gravity.

[faithhopecharity]

almost all other workers get the benefit of this law (time and a half for overtime work)

maybe the law should be repealed, but as long as we have it.......?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't know what the exact figures are now, but a couple of years ago the amount of the price of a head of lettuce that went to a field worker was about 4 cents. If you were to even double this, the difference would be literally undetectable to the consumer --- and this overtime bit isn't going to double wages.

The main determinant of prices in the fruit and vegetable business is still supply and demand. Have a fabulous, ginormous crop and you lose money because the glut on the market makes the price skid toward zero. Widespread crop failure, on the other hand, means that producers with something to ship to market can make out like bank robbers.