[kiryandil]

Hold on ponygirl, you need some context here. My original position was that the US Federal government could do with it’s land the same as any other land owner under the concept of property rights.

We tire of your .gov-lovin' patter, taxcontrol.

The simple fact of the matter is that in the lower 48 and in Hawaii, the federal, state & local governments are the only REAL landowners.

If you seek to rebut my post, just send me copies of your delinquent property tax notices for the next three or four years. I'll purchase the properties that you "own" for a song from the REAL owners.

[taxcontrol]

Way off topic but I will address it anyway.

First, yes in the US, we have and use a tax hold system of real estate. If you don’t pay your taxes, the government puts a lien on your property and if you don’t pay long enough, the government will sell your property to pay of the lien.

That has nothing to do with the US government selling grazing leases to a rancher who decided to stop paying for the access to grazing land and now is claiming squatters rights to continue to graze his cattle on Government land.