Agriculture receives a lot of $$$ in form of drought insurance, crop Insurance, FSA money for feed, disaster relief, NRCS funding infrastructure, and other varieties of government subsidies. The cattle industry has people in all levels of government to keep that money flowing. Think if I remember right the agricultural industry receives on average $25 billion per year in the US. Can’t remember exactly where I found that figure but It was published recently.
As is hunting on public land.
Not the same thing at all.
Do explain.
Sigh...many of you: don't remember the '80's Farm Crisis, weren't close enough to it (didn't lose your family farm or lose people to the rash of farmer suicides), don't know a whole lot about farmer return on products, or know maybe a few farmers that absolutely take advantage of a system to the extreme (just gonna drop this "our lovely gub'ners family does it, too" here)...
250 acres private Iowa prime whitetail habitat, bowseason only, $1000+
Paid for by taxes. That I pay plenty of. If you think the only money out if your/my pocket for that public land hunting access is your tag fee, you're mistaken.
I'm not mistaken, I am very much aware of where my tax dollars go... but I'd MUCH rather pay taxes towards maintaining wild, beautiful lands, and the <2% of people who grow my food, than the oil/car/banking/energy/manufacturing and other industries that seem to "limp along" and make record profits...while receiving Billions in subsidies (aka. Our Tax Dollars)
Speaking if what this thread used to be about...
It isn't the same thing. The rancher pays taxes and grazing fees- a direct fee to use public land. Hunters pay taxes and zero or miniscule fees to hunt public land. Hunters make up a very small portion of the taxpayer population, yet every tax payer is paying to maintain public lands.
