“My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve.”
Uhhh....no. He was paying “grazing fees”, not “doing what I want you to do” fees. If he thought the BLM wasn’t doing their job, he should have pulled his cows off the land and quit paying the fees. Or he should have lobbied the government to reign in the BLM. He can’t just decide he isn’t getting a good deal from the government and quit paying. Hell, we’d all be doing that.
This is similar to people refusing to pay income taxes because the money goes to the military.
However, the feds should just round up the cattle, sell them, take their fees and give him whatever is left. There’s no need to turn this into Occupy SW
Would like to see home addresses of these agents and their bosses posted.
I would like to quit paying taxes except for the military and the few items the Federal gov’t was given the right by the people to oversee. We gave the gov’t their rights, not the other way around.
I agree. Paying rent to use something you don’t and never have owned is a pretty simple concept.
“He can’t just decide he isn’t getting a good deal from the government and quit paying. Hell, we’d all be doing that.”
Are you saying people shouldn’t do that in protest to an out of control government? One that we’re guilty of not controlling? Well, he did it.