Post by Woody Williams on Aug 18, 2005 6:20:15 GMT -5
What Sportsmen Contribute
From; The American Sportsmen(www.sportsmenslink.org/sportman/
A hunter’s best friend is his dog and they show it--they spend
$605 million on their hunting dog, well more than the $513 million skiers spend on ski equipment.
Many people’s image of a hunter is a solitary person spending early mornings in their deer stand, or a group of friends who have duck hunted in the same blind since they were teenagers. Hunters are that, but they are so much more. When you add up the numbers of solitary deer hunters or duck hunters there are more than 13 million individuals that hunt. Put in perspective, that’s about the same number of people that live in New York City, Los Angeles and Houston combined.
Others imagine hunters spending more time than money doing what they love. Actually, hunters spend a total of 228 million days in the field, averaging 18 days per person, and are a huge economic force-spending $21 billion every year. That means they spend time and money.
Hunters’ dollars benefit the coffers of state and federal budgets, add jobs to rural towns and Fortune 500 companies and provide a paycheck to more than 500,000 families. This money, from the $140 million spent on decoys and game calls to the $464 million on camo and waders adds up to a consumer worth paying attention to.
Hunters love to buy special gear. And each year they run out spending $4.6 billion on it, equaling what Americans spend on NIKE shoes and apparel.
Each year hunters spend more money on food for hunting trips than Americans spend on Domino’s pizza. Business generated by hunters is often the lifeblood of rural communities.
Considering that the dollar figure for guns and ammunition only addresses people who hunt, when you add in the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by sport shooters you have one substantial industry. Just on ammunition and reloading equipment, hunters spent $792 million. Add in sport shooters again and that figure would be well more than Americans spend on golf balls.
Over 1/2 million jobs in America are supported by hunters. That’s more jobs than the combined employees of all the top U.S. based airlines including American, United, Delta, Northwest, Continental, US Airways, Southwest, Alaska Air and America West.
The $2.4 billion in annual federal income-tax money generated by hunters’ spending could cover the annual paychecks of 100,000 troops. That’s 8 divisions, 143 battalions, 3300 platoons and some major money.
Sportsmen contribute $54 every second, $3240 every minute, $194,400 every hour, $4.7 million every day, adding up to $1.7 billion every year for conservation.
Not only are hunters and anglers a pillar of our economy, they also underwrite the protection and management of the country’s wildlife resources.
Sportsmen’s dollars make up the lion’s share of on-the-ground wildlife conservation funding. When a hunter buys a shotgun to take to the field or ammunition
for their rifle, a portion of the cost goes towards wildlife management or educating a new generation of hunters, just as a part of the cost of a new rod, reel or boat fuel goes to make sure there are trout in the streams and places to launch boats. For more than 60 years sportsmen have paid this self-imposed tax totaling more than $7.6 billion for on the ground projects in every state, protecting our natural environment and our fish and wildlife for the enjoyment of all Americans.
Sportsmen are the financial backbone for the management of fish and wildlife in every state in the country. Without them investing in conservation for the long term, the only wildlife we might see today would be in zoos.
Through license sales and excise taxes, sportsmen
pay the lion’s share of all state fish and wildlife agency budgets. Money that funds such things as fisheries and wildlife management and recreational programs.
Since 1934, when the first duck stamp was purchased, more than $647 million has gone towards conserving wildlife habitat--greater in size than the state of Massachusetts, providing homes for waterfowl and countless other wetland species.
A portion of taxes collected from anglers and boaters–as much as $70 million a year–is used to increase public access by improving or creating boating facilities and to educate new or young fishermen about fish conservation. Hunters and shooters pitch in about $36 million to teach safety and wildlife management to new hunters.
Indiana Sportsmen Contribution
Hunters 290,000
Anglers 874,000
Total Expenditures $847 million
Total Jobs 16,000
Salaries and Wages $403 million
State Tax Revenue $50.3 million
Ripple Effect on the State Economy $1.64 billion
STATE TAX REVENUE INFORMATION
Sportsmen annually pay $50.3 million in state sales, fuel and income taxes – this could pay 1,221 teachers’ salaries or fund 6,447 students’ annual education expenses.
JOBS
Sportsmen support more jobs in Indiana than Purdue University, one of the state’s largest employers (16,256 jobs vs. 14,500).
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
Twice as many people hunt or fish in Indiana each year as attend Indianapolis Colts games (965,000* vs. 454,312).
Nearly one of every six Indiana residents hunt or fish.
Indiana sportsmen annually spend an amount equal to 20% of the Gross State Product from trucking and warehousing ($846 million vs. $4.1 billion).
Annual spending by Indiana sportsmen equals 45% of the cash receipts from corn, the state’s top agricultural commodity ($847 million vs. $1.5 billion).
* The figure for sportsmen is less than the combined number of hunters and anglers because a respondent who is both a hunter and an angler is counted in each category above
From; The American Sportsmen(www.sportsmenslink.org/sportman/
A hunter’s best friend is his dog and they show it--they spend
$605 million on their hunting dog, well more than the $513 million skiers spend on ski equipment.
Many people’s image of a hunter is a solitary person spending early mornings in their deer stand, or a group of friends who have duck hunted in the same blind since they were teenagers. Hunters are that, but they are so much more. When you add up the numbers of solitary deer hunters or duck hunters there are more than 13 million individuals that hunt. Put in perspective, that’s about the same number of people that live in New York City, Los Angeles and Houston combined.
Others imagine hunters spending more time than money doing what they love. Actually, hunters spend a total of 228 million days in the field, averaging 18 days per person, and are a huge economic force-spending $21 billion every year. That means they spend time and money.
Hunters’ dollars benefit the coffers of state and federal budgets, add jobs to rural towns and Fortune 500 companies and provide a paycheck to more than 500,000 families. This money, from the $140 million spent on decoys and game calls to the $464 million on camo and waders adds up to a consumer worth paying attention to.
Hunters love to buy special gear. And each year they run out spending $4.6 billion on it, equaling what Americans spend on NIKE shoes and apparel.
Each year hunters spend more money on food for hunting trips than Americans spend on Domino’s pizza. Business generated by hunters is often the lifeblood of rural communities.
Considering that the dollar figure for guns and ammunition only addresses people who hunt, when you add in the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by sport shooters you have one substantial industry. Just on ammunition and reloading equipment, hunters spent $792 million. Add in sport shooters again and that figure would be well more than Americans spend on golf balls.
Over 1/2 million jobs in America are supported by hunters. That’s more jobs than the combined employees of all the top U.S. based airlines including American, United, Delta, Northwest, Continental, US Airways, Southwest, Alaska Air and America West.
The $2.4 billion in annual federal income-tax money generated by hunters’ spending could cover the annual paychecks of 100,000 troops. That’s 8 divisions, 143 battalions, 3300 platoons and some major money.
Sportsmen contribute $54 every second, $3240 every minute, $194,400 every hour, $4.7 million every day, adding up to $1.7 billion every year for conservation.
Not only are hunters and anglers a pillar of our economy, they also underwrite the protection and management of the country’s wildlife resources.
Sportsmen’s dollars make up the lion’s share of on-the-ground wildlife conservation funding. When a hunter buys a shotgun to take to the field or ammunition
for their rifle, a portion of the cost goes towards wildlife management or educating a new generation of hunters, just as a part of the cost of a new rod, reel or boat fuel goes to make sure there are trout in the streams and places to launch boats. For more than 60 years sportsmen have paid this self-imposed tax totaling more than $7.6 billion for on the ground projects in every state, protecting our natural environment and our fish and wildlife for the enjoyment of all Americans.
Sportsmen are the financial backbone for the management of fish and wildlife in every state in the country. Without them investing in conservation for the long term, the only wildlife we might see today would be in zoos.
Through license sales and excise taxes, sportsmen
pay the lion’s share of all state fish and wildlife agency budgets. Money that funds such things as fisheries and wildlife management and recreational programs.
Since 1934, when the first duck stamp was purchased, more than $647 million has gone towards conserving wildlife habitat--greater in size than the state of Massachusetts, providing homes for waterfowl and countless other wetland species.
A portion of taxes collected from anglers and boaters–as much as $70 million a year–is used to increase public access by improving or creating boating facilities and to educate new or young fishermen about fish conservation. Hunters and shooters pitch in about $36 million to teach safety and wildlife management to new hunters.
Indiana Sportsmen Contribution
Hunters 290,000
Anglers 874,000
Total Expenditures $847 million
Total Jobs 16,000
Salaries and Wages $403 million
State Tax Revenue $50.3 million
Ripple Effect on the State Economy $1.64 billion
STATE TAX REVENUE INFORMATION
Sportsmen annually pay $50.3 million in state sales, fuel and income taxes – this could pay 1,221 teachers’ salaries or fund 6,447 students’ annual education expenses.
JOBS
Sportsmen support more jobs in Indiana than Purdue University, one of the state’s largest employers (16,256 jobs vs. 14,500).
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
Twice as many people hunt or fish in Indiana each year as attend Indianapolis Colts games (965,000* vs. 454,312).
Nearly one of every six Indiana residents hunt or fish.
Indiana sportsmen annually spend an amount equal to 20% of the Gross State Product from trucking and warehousing ($846 million vs. $4.1 billion).
Annual spending by Indiana sportsmen equals 45% of the cash receipts from corn, the state’s top agricultural commodity ($847 million vs. $1.5 billion).
* The figure for sportsmen is less than the combined number of hunters and anglers because a respondent who is both a hunter and an angler is counted in each category above
