The U.S. Federal Government, as well as local governments, steal millions of acres in land every year. The EPA may stipulate that you can no longer have a cow pond, fine you several million dollars, and seize your property if you fail to pay. The government recently claimed in Texas that hundreds of thousands of acres along a river were public property, so people who live in houses built there are now illegally squatting on “public land,” despite that land being theirs, and the homes being built by their families generations ago; Trump’s wall may be built over private land; Obama seized over one and a half million acres to form two new monuments in Utah in early 2017. Local governments infringe on privately owned property for sidewalks, roads, and utilities with alarming regularity, and there’s honestly not a blessed thing any of us plebeians can do about it. It’s called Eminent Domain, and what it boils down to is this: if the government wants your stuff, you can’t keep it.