Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who this spring prevented Bureau of Land Management agents from impounding his cattle after he refused to pay government grazing fees. Like Garner, Bundy was engaged in a form of commerce he believed the government should not tax.The grazing fees Bundy refused to pay were not a tax. They were a form of rent for grazing his cattle on land that did not belong to him.
Just as he'd have to pay a private citizen for permission to graze cattle on his land.
We can have a discussion about whether the fees Bundy was being ordered to pay were excessive. arbitrary or bad policy, but not that he had some sort of "right" to graze his cattle without paying the fees.
As I recall, the argument was that Bundy did have the grazing rights to the land and that the Feds violated those rights by then imposing illegal fees. The Bundy Family had those rights for decades and decades and made many improvements to the land.
That's my memory of the case.