Welfare ranchers are what the locals call them. They receive 2 million dollars a year just for boarding wild horses.
Tax payers pay to have horses removed from land further west, so ranchers can lease cheap land. They don’t want their cattle to compete with horses for limited grass.
We then pay other ranchers to board the wild horses.
Meh
You could say that about most farmers as well. The govt subsidizes lots of ag
Uep, they get tax $$$ to allow horses to toam on their property
These are actually feral horses. America once did have wild horses, but they were hunted to extinction by the Indians. A different species of domesticated horses were re-introduced by the Spanish, who taught the Indians how to ride and take care of them, but apparently not how to build fences, or wagon wheels.