Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Why Pakistan Pumps Too Much Groundwater" video.

@mindracy8259 Many poor countries are missing any proper health care and pension system for the old. As a result, many people have strategy to reproduce a lot with the intent that hopefully at least one of the children will take care of their elder parents in the future. Historically this needed to have lots of children because lots of children did die because medical care was bad, too. However, now more and more of the children survive to adulthood and they try to follow the same strategy.
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There should be zero quotas. Instead, simply price the water correctly and it will be used sensibly. Quotas always causes some people to have accidentally too big quota and some other with too little. This is because nobody knows the future perfectly so nobody can set correct quotas either. And any decision power you give to some government workers about the quotas, the more corruption you will get in the long run. It's better to have zero decision power about quotas and simply increase the price of the clean water: do not give free or cheap electricity for pumping the water, set extra penalties for continuing the water once the watertable height is already too deep. That will allows those that absolutely need the water to still pump it and the people to whom it would be easiest to keep pumping more water, it will give more incentive to come up with a better implementation.
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@arthas640 The government could set fixed tax for all the farmers but give automatic tax reductions for first e.g. $10000 earned per year. In practice, if you earn less than $10000 per year, you pay zero taxes. If you earn $25000 per year, you get the first $10000 tax free and pay fixed tax percentage for the rest. The government only has two global settings to tune: the tax percentage and the tax free amount. The higher you put the tax free limit, the more you support small farms.
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