I don't know how accurate USARK's esitmate is. They are probably including alot of supplies like the big plastic cages, pig blankets and larger size rats that are pretty much exclusive to the big snake crowd.



The CBO is probably just using raw numbers. One thing that USARK claims is that for alot of businesses pythons and boa morphs are the 'bread and butter' so to speak. In other words they have the highest percent of profit so USARK is claiming that without them the entire business could collapse, meaning the actual dollars lost will be much more that the actual dollars of pythons.



USARK is might be suspected of over estimating but one thing is for sure, the CBO has refused to even look at their estimates for S373. All the CBO did was refer to an earlier study, HB2811 and claim that the impact would be the same. Anyone can look at the classifieds here on kingsnake.com and realize this isn't going to be true. It is very obvious that Boa constrictors far outsell the 3 species which were studied in relation to HB2811 and that a new economic impact report should be done.

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