And yet we don't have to rape non residents in order to find our budget.It is a crap comparison, you're right.
It would be cool to hunt a state like New York but I wouldn't pay even the current prices to do so with so little public land and only for whitetail and black bear. I can hunt both of those in wyoming and more of them without the travel. Plus I have more public land to hunt here that is less crowded. Don't have to spend a bunch of time traveling either. New York is selling a vast majority of those tags because they're cheap and because of the huge population of people that live in that part of the world.
The west is a destination that has elk, mule deer, pronghorn, sheep, goats, moose...aren't many new York hunters coming here for black bear and whitetail...and vice versa.
You might learn something