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A comment on U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing Away. Parent comment

Re:U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing... by chicob on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:42AM (#14513732)
You are right, but that is just the case of rivers, phreatic water and the deep subsoil.

It must be the State reclaiming ownership of those commons, making people that benefit from them pay for their maintenance.

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Re:U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing... by duncan_bayne on Thursday June 08, 2017 @11:33PM (#14519000)
Why must the State own them in order for that to happen? History - especially that of the USSR in recent times - suggests that there are better alternatives.
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Re:U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing... by chicob on Friday June 09, 2017 @07:23AM (#14520618)
The State owning them is a proxy for shared responsibility. Because in democracies, the people controls the State by means of parliaments/senates/etc.

Besides, the State doesn't have to own everything. There's a middle ground between the flexibility of private ownership and the rigorousness of public management.

In the USSR everything was controlled by the State, and the State wasn't accountable by means of democracy.

I must say that from were I come, I have some pretty good examples of good public management, like healthcare and water management.

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