The US economy is today, a fascist economy, where politicians favor certain businesses with subsidies and those businesses turn around and favor certain politicians with campaign contributions.

The rest of us struggle to compete with the subsidized corporations.

Your vote doesn't do much when the power to elect comes from the large donors who tend to receive even larger subsidies.

Mussolini defined this system in the early 1930s in a paper he wrote called. "The Doctrine of Fascism"

A fascist economy is indifferent to the individual and places politicians and corporations at the top.

Our plan to Rewild the West entails a managed retreat from todays fascist economy and embraces a free market economy amplifying new solutions based business opportunities.

With no additional taxpayer burden our plan

Ends wasteful and polluting subsidy based businesses from operating on public lands.
Promotes capitolist free market enterprise on private land.
Reduces the need for millions of farmed acres
Reduces the need for water
Provides jobs

Here's how it works

There's 1.9 million grazing unit permits sold on public lands. A unit is one cow and calf combo. That's 3.8 million cattle worth of livestock grazing.

Meat industry subsidies $38 Billion
Farm subsidies going to grain to feed the meat industry $28.5 billion

So lets retire all 1.9 million of those permits, bank that $66.5 billion in annual subsidies. Charge the remaining cattle growers the real market cost of grains to finish their cattle for market and let the market price of meat reflect the actual cost.

Couple predictions

Roughly 10% of the nations cattle for slaughter inventory hang on public lands. We predict no decrease in the availability or increase in the cost of beef cattle

Without invasive livestock on public lands those lands begin the reforestation process naturally

Today in the USA we have about 25% of the pre colonial forested area. That area is estimated to absorb 20 to 45% of annual GHG emissions. By retiring grazing permits on public lands we immediately see a benefit in GHG uptake by recovering forested land.

And saved $66.5 billion

So what happens to all the guys running cattle today who're now out of a job.

There's 600,000 miles of barbed wire on public lands. Now there's a job needs doing, costs about $3billion, once.

Opens up migratory routs, prevents about 1/4 million wildlife fatalities annually.

Should take them a couple years and in the mean time we're firing up a reforestation program.

In the last 20 years we've reforested roughly 20 million acres, our plan accelerates that reforestation.

$450 pr acre seedlings and labor
10 million acres annually

$4.5 billion

At this point we're two years into the plan. We cut off $66.5 billion in annual subsidies from the meat industry & the grain industry to feed them.

We spent $3 billion removing fences and $4.5 billion on a program to reforest 10 million acres annually.

We're up $125,5 billion

Year 3
Wildlife numbers will begin to recover almost instantly. We need to start building wildlife overpasses in order to reduce wildlife transportation conflicts.

$4 million per wildlife overpass
One overpass per 10 miles
160,000 miles of highway in the USA
= $64 billion

Even if we could build 16 thousand wildlife overpasses in a year we wouldn't need to. Highways in the west R 100,000 miles of the total and we only need the overpasses on roads passing through public lands. We'd need tops 10k overpasses.

Account balance yr 3 $147.5 billion

Early fiscal Year 4

It costs $380k per mile to install induction charging coils in the highway. We have 160,000 miles of highway.
We begin a $60.8 billion project to resurface every single mile of US highways with induction charging coils.

And never buy gas or diesel again

US farm subsidies for grain to make ethanol fuel additive

$30 billion annual subsidy

US fossil fuels subsidies for transportation 14 of the 20 million barrels burned daily. 28% of our GHG pollution

$36.4 billion annual subsidy

Account balance fiscal year 6 +$272.6 billion

Looks to me like we could actually accelerate the plan. I'll continue spit balling a schedule and budget but I can already see where it could be improved.

Thanks for listening.

Cheers

I could use the meat and grain for feed subsidies to start the induction charging roadways element of the plan earlier, but it seemed like having a prudent reserve would be solid. Also I wanted to start the wildlife overpasses ASAP in order mitigate wildlife transpo conflicts.

Year one

Ban on
All but subsistence hunting based on economic need.
Logging, mining, new fossil fuels infrastructure.
public lands grazing

End meat industry subsidies
Grain for feed subsidies

Put loggers to work reforesting
Put ranchers to work removing barbed wire

Year two
Finish removing barbed wire/recycle $3 b
Continue reforestation 10 million acres annually $4.5 b
Begin wildlife overpasses. $40 b
Begin installing induction charging road surfaces. $60 b

End year two cash reserve $25.5 billion

By ending meat industry subsidies we've created other markets. The domestic swine market depends heavily on subsidies. If we remove those subsidies the cost of pork rises enough to make the removal of feral hogs financially advantageous and brings additional supply to market.

By ending the grain for feed subsidy we've benefitted specialty growers who weren't grain finishing their herd anyway. Making the little guy, more competitive with the big corporate growers. Families are moving on up because they're already using more sustainable methods.

We reduced the domestic livestock grazing on public lands by 1.9 million units, which reduced the amount of feed grain needed, which cut production, which benefited more efficiently run outfits, which make more money on less land.

And now sell in a free capitalist market.