Colorado wants you to buy an annual permit before you can sell a photograph of an elk. $35 a year, and it reaches any wildlife, any insect, even a butterfly in your backyard. Photograph a barn, sell it, fine. Photograph an elk, sell it, and now you owe the state a fee and its permission. That's pricing a picture by what's in it, and it's the kind of speech tax courts strike down. The twist: a career wildlife official filed it, and in Colorado a citizen petition isn't a suggestion box. This same commission ran a fur-ban petition right over its own director in March. The full case, every number, and how to fight it before the vote: heckuvajob.substack.com/p/a-…