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.
Good job, taxcontrol. Soooo many posters refuse to address the simple issue, but want to divert to larger emotional issues which have nothing to do failure or refusal to pay the fees due, and the ramifications of no doing so.
Although Bundy pulled a stupid move by stopping payment, he should have sued years ago to get this settled. This whole situation was not as though suddenly one evening the BLM jackboots parachuted in and surprised Bundy. Bundy had full knowledge for years of the results for failing to pay. Yet so many posters refuse to acknowledge this and continually attempt to turn this into a federal government overreach problem.