You may now have your chance.
That is, if you're a creative thinker and businessman.
The Idaho Wildlife Services Program, a federally funded program to assist ranchers with predators, is cutting the funds that they can spend in Idaho. The program is cooperatively funded, with about $700,000 coming directly from Idaho based entities. The rest of the funding is picked up by us, the taxpayers.
But because the federal funds are not going to be available this coming year for the program, the Idaho Cattle Association is prepping up to go ask the Idaho Legislature for some funding. So we, the people, are going to be asked to pick up part of the tab in any case.
But wouldn't it just make a lot more sense to privatize this service? Of course it would. Leaving constitutional arguments aside, private industries are always more effective and efficient than the government. If you need proof, then I would remind you of our national deficit (at the time of writing):
$15,035,753,630,566.00
So I think that a savvy individual could go to the Idaho Cattle Association and strike some sort of a deal. I mean, if you were offered just $700,000, how many coyotes do you think you could kill? You could just sit in your office, take $100,000 as your salary, and then offer $25 bounty on the spot for coyote kills to whomever. Using up the remaining $600,000, you could haze 24,000 coyotes.
Or maybe to be more effective, you could use part of the money to offer a bounty, and the remaining could go toward hiring a few full time trappers, who could also then respond directly to predations.
Write a proposal, and go for it.
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~ J. Bunch
