No income and his wife's listed occupation on linked in is like Foster Parent.
Yes, IRS says you have to have income for like three years otherwise your business gets downgraded to hobby. But might be different for agbusiness.
The ranch produced nothing for profit, but he had 10 eleventy boys at a time on that ranch working it. Working it for what? His ranch was not a non profit, he was not offering dude ranch services for troubled boys.
He was 'fostering' - to the tune of $100k+ a year.
He was intentionally living off the govt he claimed to be willing to die to fight against.
He was a Mormon. Mormons are kings of the welfare scam - ask non-Mormon white folks who have to deal with real Mormons instead of Salt Lake City's Mormon, Inc.
And his ranch sounds like a indentured servants/Slave set up. Some of Bundys paternalism towards nikkas starts to make a more sinister sense even beyond religiously codified racism.
He had issues with the govt to the tune of like a mere thousand for a misuse of grazing on an assload of acreage. That thousand was chump change for what the govt allowed, and he still pushed it. And he kept fighting them instead of admitting he fukked up, so legal fees added up.
But you're right, this isn't talked about enough. I see them working, in the silences, though. fukk em.