they all have to go home sometime...
Posted on 07/09/2014 6:53:58 AM PDT by blam
Edited on 07/09/2014 7:10:09 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly claimed that it has the authority to unilaterally garnish the wages of individuals who have been accused of violating its rules.
According to The Washington Times, the agency announced the plan to enhance its purview last week in a notice in the Federal Register. The notice claimed that federal law allows the EPA to "garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without first obtaining a court order."
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“More out of control Nazism.”
Seems every day now fascism is advancing.
And few notice.
Eventually it will be too late. And Obama or his replacement will announce themselves dictator.
Congress needs to shut these things down
Yes and yes, if you are a person or individual.
The question is - are you?
In a perfectly free market system, private companies which excessively pollute have plenty to fear from other private institutions:
-A responsible media can properly inform citizens of the damages industry does (can anyone honestly argue that our media is anything except anti-industry and pro-Greenpeace traitors?). Get rid of government involvement in media and incentive for media to coddle politicians, and watch as the media becomes trustworthy. Media which emasculates itself for the egos of environmentalists will quickly die out in a market system where consumers have the option of the truth.
-Acting as consumers, and given greater amounts of responsibility, citizens can and will refuse to buy products from companies who pollute to the extent that they tangibly damage the environment. Consumers today are idiots and ill-informed because they leave investigations to bureaucrats and politicians. Given that bureaucrats and politicians are inherently alarmist and control-freaks, a citizen is desensitized to legitimate dangers. Get rid of the bureaucrats and politicians, and force citizens to be market savvy. A citizenry which doesn’t make intelligent consumption choices (assuming adequate access to information, which we will have) deserves to be taken advantage of.
-A business which deals with excessive polluters can quickly find themselves at the wrong end of a negative campaign, especially if consumers have true choice and don’t have to deal with government favoritism and government-enforced monopolies.
Thus, a business in a free-market, anti-corporate welfare system has plenty of incentive to self-regulate.
-Even if you take the anti-federalism approach and allow states to set their own regulations, there is still the potential for moonbat liberals to tie the hands of industry. It would be unreasonable to allow Massachusetts to deny industry access to resources just because their citizens are a bunch of Commies.
In summary, environmental regulations are perfectly fine if they are informal and market-based. Formal regulations are never necessary, and are always used to justify needless control of the economy. Overhauling the system to wipe out all formal government regulations would lead to better outcomes for everyone who doesn’t need to rely on government money to make a profit.
What’s Boehner/Mcconnell’s response...
Meta-investors have run to energy. Heating fuels might be much higher in the near future (see price trial on propane last winter). The EPA is ruling against wood stoves, masonry heaters, pellet stoves and outdoor boilers (see the second phase of that in five years). State and local regulatory offices are prepared for that and the windfalls they’ll receive from it.
The EPA is also expanding more into regulating against private use of water resources in preparation for global concerns buying water resources. Such concerns/groups have bought-up the water rights of at least one whole country. State and local offices are ready for that, too (already in many local government documents).
It’s a bipartisan effort, pushed by global concerns and the state and local governments that now serve them. Add it all up and see ahead, those of you who want to do so. Or don’t.
they all have to go home sometime...
My e-mail has been sent. Glad I have no wages to confiscate. I suppose they could take my S.S.
Previous EPA administrators such as Carol Browner and Lisa Jackson (her protege’) were hardcore marxists. McCarthy is a fascist thug, much like Virginia’s Gov. Terry McAuliffe was for the Democrat Party.
Even I’m shocked at her blood-colded administrative manners and it takes a lot to shock me these days.
The EPA definitely needs to be completely overhauled or demolished and replaced by a science-based environmental agency.
EPA Claims It Has The Power To Garnish Wages Without Court Approval>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thats Screw Process, not due process.
No, no you don’t EPA. You also don’t have the power to make law.
EPA is soliciting comments prior to Aug 1 — keep those comments going!
This time your comments have an impact!
Note they can garnish wages WITHOUT a court order:
“The direct final rule will allow the EPA to garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without first obtaining a court order.”
We may be able to have them rescind this outrageous rule:
“This direct final rule is effective September 2, 2014 without further notice unless EPA receives adverse comments by August 1, 2014. If EPA receives such comments, it will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule in theFederal Registerand inform the public that the rule will not take effect.”
Link for more info and comments:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA_FRDOC_0001-15898
Click on the “Comments button on the top right”
“EPA’s policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at www.regulations.gov”
And info also:
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/07/02/2014-15578/administrative-wage-garnishment
This is the logical end point of a shadow government bureaucracy created by a Congress unwilling to do it’s job.
see article and #29
You ascribe an awful high level of altruism, attentiveness and concern to people here. Levels those people haven’t earned. There’s no reason to believe people would behave the way you described and every reason to believe they wouldn’t.
If people face a high price for failure, they will quickly learn to be attentive and concerned. The major reason for America’s recent decline is that while people can still fail (we are not yet Bolshevists), failure is inconsequential when bureaucrats do all the thinking and provisions for the body politic.
No system is perfect, but mine seems to be the best solution to guarantee that there will be no amount of governmental tyranny. Localizing governmental authority admittedly does not allow for tyranny to the same extent the federal government does, but there is still the invetability of some measure of government tyranny. To slightly modify Reagan’s famous quote, “Government is never the solution to the problem.”
If people face a high price for failure, they will quickly learn to be attentive and concerned.
Yours IS a good solution, in theory. It will just not work in practice. Humans have very different ideas of “their own best interests” than what your theory proposes.
What if we make a Constitutional Amendment which requires the Constitution to be interpreted in a Strict Constructionist fashion, and then introduce Constitutional amendments which restrict the government to a few vital functions (such as defense)? Politicians won’t be so willing to increase the size of the government if they would face impeachment procedures over doing so. Given that there is broad anti-government sentiment in this country and an increase in Tea Party politicians (or at least politicians sympathetic to the T.P.), pushing for an Amendment such as that in 2017 wouldn’t be a pipe dream.
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