Originally Posted by eyeball
Bundy had grazing rights from the state. Those rights are worth money, which .gov took away without paying him for them.

Regardless, the Az congress woman reported on Hannity this week, that Clark county bought those grazing rights back from the Feds for 375,000 in 1998.



what rights did Bundy have 'from the state?'. the rights in question were with the BLM, not the state.

the reason those rights are worth money is because the BLM charged a VERY low fee for grazing ($1.25 per head per month IIRC). going rate for private grazing is ~$14.50. so this means the guy with those BLM grazing rights is basically getting a very lucrative govt. subsidy. can't blame him for getting his, but I have never seen good argument for giving the Bundys dirt cheap rights to 600,000 acres of public lands for eternity except "they've been getting it so long it should be 'theirs'"

Guns don't kill people, drivers with cell phones kill people.