Cats are efficient creatures: they will exert only that amount of effort required to accomplish what they desire, and no more. I figure that cat is weighing the effort of responding against the level of annoyance. Not yet, it might be thinking. It may yet stop on its own.
It kinda reminds me of how peace in Europe has long been subsidized by American military spending. So much of what makes life work for these idiot "libertarians" is a level of state and federal subsidy that would make urban dwellers like me blush. I say, let's give them what they want. See how long they last in the desert without the funding from taxes paid by genuinely productive workers and companies.
Bundy says his claim dates to 1877. The irony is that in 1875, the local Paiute Indians were forced off those lands into reservations so white men could move in and seize them.
Beef market price in March was around $2/pound on the hoof (at least I think the price I'm looking at is on the hoof; we don't sell beef so I'm not sure, but anyway... just for the basis of this, we'll say that it is.)
$2/pound. Avg market weight 1500 pounds. So that's $3000 per animal brought into market. Just a quick number... it could be somewhat more or less, but that's a good educated guess.
And out of that, he couldn't find A DOLLAR FREAKING THIRTY FIVE CENTS PER ANIMAL to pay for their grazing? That's hardly a dent in input expenses. (And I just saw that it was per month, not enough coffee... but still! SIXTEEN DOLLARS AND TWENTY CENTS per head, per year. Out of about $3000 per head per year. Wow.)
And what's a "grazing fee"? Is it a price you pay for your cattle to graze on someone else's land or is some kind of tax on cattle that you pay to the state?
From what I understand, it's like land rent... like we pay, say, $150/acre to rent someone's land to plant our crop on it. Only this is paid per head of cattle. There are probably regulations as to how many cattle you can graze over how much land, which is why it's not done per acre, I imagine.
It is the price you pay for your cattle to graze on someone else's land. Cattle grazing has environmental impact (they eat the foliage, drink the water, and stink).
Generally we would expect the federal grazing fees to be lower than private fees naturally because federal land isn't as high quality as most of the private land. When Nevada(and many western states)was formed a lot of the reason that the Feds held onto much of the land was because no one wanted it. But it probably would not be as low as they are.
Additionally saying that it should be Nevada's land is kinda disingenuous. The federal taxpayer has been paying to manage those lands that no one wanted for many years now and then all of a sudden someone wants to make some use out of it and doesn't want to pay the rest of the nation gets screwed? I'll pass on that thank you.
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It kinda reminds me of how peace in Europe has long been subsidized by American military spending. So much of what makes life work for these idiot "libertarians" is a level of state and federal subsidy that would make urban dwellers like me blush. I say, let's give them what they want. See how long they last in the desert without the funding from taxes paid by genuinely productive workers and companies.
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Beef market price in March was around $2/pound on the hoof (at least I think the price I'm looking at is on the hoof; we don't sell beef so I'm not sure, but anyway... just for the basis of this, we'll say that it is.)
$2/pound. Avg market weight 1500 pounds. So that's $3000 per animal brought into market. Just a quick number... it could be somewhat more or less, but that's a good educated guess.
And out of that, he couldn't find A DOLLAR FREAKING THIRTY FIVE CENTS PER ANIMAL to pay for their grazing? That's hardly a dent in input expenses. (And I just saw that it was per month, not enough coffee... but still! SIXTEEN DOLLARS AND TWENTY CENTS per head, per year. Out of about $3000 per head per year. Wow.)
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Generally we would expect the federal grazing fees to be lower than private fees naturally because federal land isn't as high quality as most of the private land. When Nevada(and many western states)was formed a lot of the reason that the Feds held onto much of the land was because no one wanted it. But it probably would not be as low as they are.
Additionally saying that it should be Nevada's land is kinda disingenuous. The federal taxpayer has been paying to manage those lands that no one wanted for many years now and then all of a sudden someone wants to make some use out of it and doesn't want to pay the rest of the nation gets screwed? I'll pass on that thank you.
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