Comments on: Goodbye, White Fang http://needlenose.com/wp/2009/03/09/goodbye-white-fang/ We Needle. You Decide. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:45:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: greenboy http://needlenose.com/wp/2009/03/09/goodbye-white-fang/comment-page-1/#comment-2008 greenboy Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:14:13 +0000 http://www.needlenose.com/wp/?p=1207#comment-2008 Amen, CodpieceWatch! Actually if you follow my Babbitt link, the best approach would be to charge free market rates for grazing fees on public lands. Lots of ranching operations only exist because of the subsidies, if those were removed, a whole lot of cattle would disappear from BLM lands. And bingo, far fewer wolf/cattle conflicts! We'd pay less money in taxes as the subsidies would disappear and we wouldn't have to pay for dead livestock. Beef would go up in price. But that's the 'free market,' right? Amen, CodpieceWatch! Actually if you follow my Babbitt link, the best approach would be to charge free market rates for grazing fees on public lands. Lots of ranching operations only exist because of the subsidies, if those were removed, a whole lot of cattle would disappear from BLM lands. And bingo, far fewer wolf/cattle conflicts! We’d pay less money in taxes as the subsidies would disappear and we wouldn’t have to pay for dead livestock.

Beef would go up in price. But that’s the ‘free market,’ right?

]]> By: CodpieceWatch http://needlenose.com/wp/2009/03/09/goodbye-white-fang/comment-page-1/#comment-2006 CodpieceWatch Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:19:01 +0000 http://www.needlenose.com/wp/?p=1207#comment-2006 Just like the farmers get paid if they lose and/or don't plant crops, the ranchers get paid for any lifestock that might be lost to wolves (and it's a tiny percentage), so what's the big deal? This country has a sick obsession with killing, and I'm more than a little disappointed in Obama and Salazar that would continue this cruel practice. Just like the farmers get paid if they lose and/or don’t plant crops, the ranchers get paid for any lifestock that might be lost to wolves (and it’s a tiny percentage), so what’s the big deal? This country has a sick obsession with killing, and I’m more than a little disappointed in Obama and Salazar that would continue this cruel practice.

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