My understanding may be off....
i thought he had rights to graze the land from WAY back, no annual taxes needed.
Then the BLM is created and they are authorized to collect 'fees' from ranchers, for helping to 'manage land'.
Harry Reid's son is working a deal with the chinese to build a solar panel plant on that land. Harry Reid calls in a favor with his ex-senior advisor who is now a big shot at BLM. BLM starts using rancher fees to 'buy out' the ranchers and get them to leave. Bundy refuses. He doesn't pay his fees because he doesn't feel BLM is doing what was originally agreed to.
Reid tries this 'endangered desert tortoise' bullshit to get rid of Bundy, says his cattle are disturbing the tortoise. Words comes out that the tortoise are overrunning their preserve and getting sick, plans are in place to euthanize 1000 tortoise.
Reid bails on the tortoise ploy and says he hasn't paid his BLM fees. Sends in the feds to **** with him.
Nobody knows this until recently, that Reid is involved and his son stands to make big $$$ if they can get the ranchers off the land. As soon as the conservative media gets wind of it and starts printing it, the feds pull out.
Couple things here. The liberal media has been silent on this the entire time. Only the conservative media and people on the ground were talking about it.
With this much money at stake, they WILL have bundy out of there. It will just be sheer coincidence that a Chinese manufacturer will move in.
If you read a lot about this, you will read many comments from Nevada folks who hate Reid and try to get rid of him at every election. They talk about the casinos (big donors to Reid's campaigns) bringing in questionable people via bus to the polls with lists of who to vote for.
Reid and the casinos fight constantly against voter id.
That's all i've got to say about that.