I was personally threatened with escalating, huge fines for non-compliance of the feedlot rules, based on paperwork from the early seventies. Papers of which I had no knowledge, and were apparently the product of the fevered imagination of a USDA agent eager to convince my father that the cure for losing money with a small herd was to get a much bigger herd !
The State presumed that there was ONE HUNDRED TIMES as many cattle on the property as in real life and began issuing threats WITHOUT first even being able to locate , much less count the animals. It took the agent assigned to "investigate" three DAYS to find the farm, something both the UPS and Post Office show little difficulty in doing !
The government attracts many more incompetents than any other field and then grants them power over us all.
That is why government MUST be kept restrained.