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.
reading your post at 300 or so. Logic aside, let us start at “When will you do something?” When they are putting you in cattle cars? Remember reading that? Remember reading Churchill’s, “Will we fight when we can be reasonably assured of victory at losses not too precious...or will we begin to fight only when there is slim hope of victory at a very great cost.” (pardon the paraphrase.) The point I am making here is this. Even in the face of particulars that make this sound worse and worse for the Fed Gov, I say this, we have to fight somewhere. We may not get the “virgin bride raped at wedding” level of dishonor we might hope for. Anne Barnhardt says this may not be the hill to die on. I respect here and those that hold this view. Fact is we better pick a hill and damn fast and this one will do as well as any.
Problem is, the BLM doesn’t want payment, they want Bundy off that land.