A Billion Dollars For The States Thanks To Sportsmen.

[Mr VJP]

Fun With Numbers

When we start tossing around big numbers, it's tough to put them into a perspective that translates to a relevant number to individuals. When you're bringing home $25,000 a year, a million dollars sounds almost too-large to imagine. So imagining a billion dollars (that's a thousand millions of dollars) is pretty much out of the realm of relevance. 

Last week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced it was going to distribute $1.1 billion dollars (that's $1,100,000,000) in revenues generated by the hunting and angling industries to state and territorial wildlife services across the nation. That probably elicited a resounding shrug from most of us. So, we wanted to put a little bit of perspective on that number. The best way to do that is to breakdown the massive number into smaller, more easily understood numbers. 

So…..here are the way funds are being distributed by state by thevoluntary taxes paid on hunting and fishing gear by outdoorsmen. Sorry animal rightists, but you didn't didn't raise this money. 

STATE/TERRITORY 
ALABAMA $25,562,321 ALASKA $51,951,630 AMERICAN SAMOA $2,502,516 ARIZONA $27,219,443 ARKANSAS $19,403,525 CALIFORNIA $44,134,573 COLORADO $28,516,034 CONNECTICUT $9,242,606 DELAWARE $8,232,316 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA $1,155,056 FLORIDA $25,607,039 GEORGIA $25,236,594 GUAM $2,502,516 HAWAII $8,232,316 IDAHO $21,670,126 ILLINOIS $23,783,360 INDIANA $18,386,530 IOWA $16,502,569 KANSAS $19,984,814 KENTUCKY $19,623,501 LOUISIANA $22,570,941 MAINE $11,872,265 MARYLAND $11,140,015 MASSACHUSETTS $11,131,347 MICHIGAN $37,569,842 MINNESOTA $37,850,616 MISSISSIPPI $15,109,447 MISSOURI $29,783,609 MONTANA $29,781,997 N. MARIANA ISLANDS $2,502,516 NEBRASKA $17,608,725 NEVADA $19,340,531 NEW HAMPSHIRE $8,232,316 NEW JERSEY $11,131,347 NEW MEXICO $22,125,164 NEW YORK $28,927,341 NORTH CAROLINA $31,320,942 NORTH DAKOTA $16,004,762 OHIO $24,084,830 OKLAHOMA $25,729,133 OREGON $26,047,277 PENNSYLVANIA $37,974,470 PUERTO RICO $7,024,381 RHODE ISLAND $8,232,316 SOUTH CAROLINA $15,674,905 SOUTH DAKOTA $19,016,379 TENNESSEE $31,366,355 TEXAS $54,850,661 UTAH $20,944,045 VERMONT $8,232,316 VIRGIN ISLANDS $2,502,516 VIRGINIA $19,431,901 WASHINGTON $22,215,325 WEST VIRGINIA $12,088,070 WISCONSIN $36,479,149 WYOMING $19,662,264
 

 

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