[reaganaut1]

Is there a sector of the economy that Rats are not trying to stifle?

[bgill]

Of course, it will. The government taxes requires permit$ for everything.

[Diogenesis]

One permit for 3 kidneys and 2 children to be sold as slaves,
unless the (soon to be ex-) farmer is a Moslem,
or narcoterrorist, or DNC Captain, of course.

[EBH]

Control access to healthcare...

Control access to food...

Control access to energy...

Hmmm...I think Mao did something similar before his reign of terror...

[GraceG]

Cali-domor.....

Pretty much soon comming soon to a EPA controled FEMA region near you....

[pikachu]

Just wait until they require permits to mow your lawn, scrape off dog doo, or remove the permanent campaign sign for his royal Highness King Barry The First and the Royal Consort, Michelle the Magnificent from your lawn.

[napscoordinator]

In Maryland, sometimes you need a permit to chop down a tree on your own property. It is so ridiculous.

[Ben Ficklin]

The key phrase is in the first paragraph: "muddled by recent court rulings"

Originally, and since the 1970s, they were regulated as "navigable waters" but the court ruling muddled the water by saying all of those waters weren't navigable waters.

So they have been trying to re-implement the regs.

The waters will be regulated by some govt entity, but it might be a state or county govt, rather than the feds.