Posted on 07/09/2014 7:50:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly floated a rule claiming authority to bypass the courts and unilaterally garnish paychecks of those accused of violating its rules, a power currently used by agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service.....
....Critics said the threat of garnishing wages would be a powerful incentive for people to agree to expensive settlements rather than fight EPA charges.
EPA officials did not respond to repeated questions by The Washington Times about why they thought it was necessary to garnish people’s wages.
The EPA announced the plan last week in a notice in the Federal Register, saying federal law allows it “to garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without first obtaining a court order.”.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Blackmail Tax !!
One more agency standing in need of abolition.
I imagine most “polluters” are either corporations or entrepenuers who don’t get “wages”. Sound like they really want to be able to attach bank accounts.
I guess I’m sitting here now and wondering whether our economy of the not-too-distant future will consist of, say, one 22LR cartridge being the equivalent of a barter-quarter/dollar.
We are ALL “polluters” now!
They have declared the CO2 in the breath you exhale, is a pollutant.
They will come after your paycheck!
It is a way to disable political enemies. To the EPA, water your garden and it's irrigation; turn that hose on the driveway and it's polluted industrial waste-water. I'm not kidding.
This rule will be used to rip up the fabric of bread and butter, home with a picket white fence America. Imagine your home not having an EPA approved energy foot print...instant fine of thousands of dollars. Too many old style non energy star appliances...an instant fine with no recourse. They won’t just use this against big factories. They’ll use it against apartment dwellers and home owners, who if they cross some little line(and there are many regulations that are easy to cross) then they will be instantly fined heavily for it. . Eagle feather drops on your lawn...better not pick it up or else instant fine. Old lead fishing weights found by an officer in your tackle box, if reported to the EPA>.. instant fine! You think I’m being ridiculous? You know already how these mother F/obamas are operating in DC...they’ll try to push the limits until they are finally swatted back.
I’m afraid some overly nosy EPA officers who, if this rule goes thru and will be sniffing about for minor offenses in order to bring massive fines on home-owners and small business men, may tragically discover the truth behind rule number 33 and a third....S.B.S.!
America is destroyed.
They will mostly go after small-fry, because they are easier prey. I am thinking mom-and-pop businesses like gas stations, auto shops, farms, etc.
Anybody with a pond, anybody with waste on their property, whether animal or industrial (old batteries, oil slick, etc) will be targeted.
What happened to the “takings” clause?
Corporations first, then us. You do pollute. You have trash, right?
And these type entities don't generally receive "wages" to garnish. Small business owners put receipts in the band and write checks to cover expenses. What's left over (the profit) is their income. The only way to get to that is to attach their bank accounts.
June 23, 2014: “Leaving the federal government with considerable power to impose controls on greenhouse gases that contribute to heating up the planet and causing climate change, on Monday the Supreme Court also delivered a stern lecture to the Environmental Protection Agency for claiming regulatory power that Congress did not give it.......
.....While EPA itself and the Justice Department basically claimed afterward that they had won this sharply contested case, EPA itself did not escape some of the sharpest judicial language that a court can use to rebuke an agency for stretching its authority too far.
“An agency may not rewrite clear statutory terms to suit its own sense of how the statute should operate,” Justice Scalia wrote. “We are not willing to stand on the dock and wave goodbye as EPA embarks on a multiyear voyage of discovery” about how it wants to regulate greenhouse gases.
It was “patently unreasonable — not to say outrageous — for EPA to insist on seizing expansive power that it admits the statute is not designed to grant,” the opinion said. It accused the agency of “laying claim to extravagant statutory power over the national economy.”
If EPA were to get the Court’s approval for its broadest view of its powers in this field, Scalia added, that “would deal a severe blow to the Constitution’s separation of powers.”
Technically, and beyond the sometimes severe rhetoric, this is what the decision in six separate petitions (the lead petition was Utility Air Regulatory Group v EPA) actually held:
First, EPA may not move to regulate all forms of greenhouse gas emissions just because it has authority to do that in some contexts — such as emissions from the tailpipes of automobiles and trucks......”
http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/opinion-analysis-epa-mostly-wins-but-with-criticism/
What is this "22LR" that you speak of?
I seem to recall a cartridge called a "Twenty-Two" but haven't seen any for a long time.....are they the same?
And why would a rare and unseen cartridge be worth only a quarter?
:o)
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