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The issue always comes to assign a price in US dollars.

The government may pay people in other things that were the result of direct resource allocation, so you simply cannot put a price to it.

What is the cost of land that the government gives you? What is the cost of a lump of coal? Clearly this is a lot more than the simple capital cost used to extract it.

The long and short of it is, you're not getting a meaningful price is US dollars.