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Worth A Read: How Welfare Ranchers Take Taxpayers For A Ride

March 31, 20180644
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The Bundy family and their supporters drive their cattle back onto public land outside of Bunkerville, Nev. after they were released by the Bureau of Land Management on April 12, 2014. (Jason Bean / AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal) (More horses than cattle)
Ranchers on BLM land have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. And they target wild horses for removal in order to preserve the rangeland that makes this financial windfall possible.
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Dr. Michael Manford McGreer is managing editor of Nevada-today.com and writes on issues that impact public policy.

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