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Article #6822Re: more Welfare Cowboys? (eco)
From: Don Baccus
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00
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Chrissie (root) wrote: : I don't : believe running cattle on public land is always environmentally unsound, but I : would object to a government subsidy that puts the eastern farmer : at a distinct disadvantage. Though I don't have the information you wish, I do have some anecdotal evidence that at least some cattlemen believe it does. Back in the Bush administration days, a mid-western Congressman co-sponsored a bill to raise the AUM rate on public lands, on the basis that the low rate gave public lands ranchers an unfair competitive advantage over his constituents. -- - Don Baccus -
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb58e,8044f9e88621286c X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,8044f9e88621286c X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,8044f9e88621286c X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: ffe14,8044f9e88621286c X-Google-Attributes: gidffe14,public From: donb@rational.com (Don Baccus) Subject: Re: more Welfare Cowboys? (eco) Date: 1995/07/13 Message-ID: <3u3lh5$j82@rational.rational.com> X-Deja-AN: 106250370 references: <d72_9506270700@salata.com> <3ti7q5$e7l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3tml97$5kl@rational.rational.com> <3u0ad7$ko3@news.manassas.ibm.com> followup-to: ca.environment,talk.environment,alt.activism,ca.politics organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: ca.environment,talk.environment,alt.activism,ca.politics