California comes up with another economically idiotic idea

From the state that brought you the $15 minimum wage, the mandate that all corporate boards have at least one woman, and the still-thankfully-unbuilt light rail comes this humdinger:

Changes could be coming to your favorite restaurant thanks to a statewide initiative just being announced Wednesday, called Restore California Renewable Restaurants.

Restaurant owners have the option of charging customers an additional 1% on their bills that would go to help stop climate change. Payments will be gathered by the California Air Resources Board and spent on implementing carbon plans on farms and ranches across California, boosting healthy soil, according to the Perrenial Farming Initiative.

“There’s always going to be the people who say, why is this on the bill? I don’t want to pay it. I don’t care what it’s for. I don’t want to pay it,” Christopher Barnum-Dann, the owner of Localis, said.
Talking to people in Sacramento Tuesay, they are split on the idea.
“I wouldn’t be interested in doing that. Leave the climate alone,” one resident said.

“We’re not asking our fixed-income people to pay that on their property tax. We’re asking that of someone who had made a choice to go out and spend money,” another resident, John Peters, said.
If the restaurant you’re eating at is a part of the program, you don’t have to pay the 1% if you don’t want to. You can just ask your server to take it off your bill.
“Well I live in California and I don’t know if you know this or not it’s pretty freaking expensive here. One percent to somebody who doesn’t make that much money ain’t a lot but it’s a lot more than they have,” resident Mike Mattingly said.

It's going to be interesting to see how the size of each of the four groups of restaurant patrons shapes up as this gets going (organizers hope to have 200 eateries signed up by the end of the year):

• The eager virtue-signalers who are quite proud to part with the extra money, because they really swallow the hooey about the climate being in a state of crisis
• Those who will reluctantly cough it up rather than endure the shaming facial expression of their woke server 
• Those who will say, "No, please take that off my bill."
• Those who quit eating out.