A report by the Congressional Research Service puts the cost of short-term holding at $6.00 per day and the cost of long-term holding at $2.35 per day.
For every AUM assigned to livestock in the lawful homes of wild horses, the government collects $1.35 from the permittee while it spends $70 to $180 to care for the horse displaced thereby.
Nobody in the private sector would do that.
If they really cared about costs, Congress would direct the government to put the horses back on the range and relieve the ranchers of their grazing permits, while making the necessary changes to the statutes.
The advocates would likely oppose the new policy.
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