Musk and Ramaswamy will review the top 1% of applicants according to a November 17 story in The Hill.
Consider one AUM, the amount of forage necessary to keep one wild horse or one cow/calf pair on the range for one month.
If the bureaucrats assign it to a rancher, he’ll pay $1.35 to the government while it spends $150 to care for the horse displaced thereby. This is current practice.
If the bureaucrats assign it to a horse, the government saves $150 in holding costs while forfeiting $1.35 in grazing fees.
You don’t need a high IQ to realize that best option is the latter, to be achieved by confining the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season.
The advocates, not known for superior intelligence, claim that the problem can be solved by shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts.
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