Posted on 09/24/2011 10:12:35 AM PDT by WilliamIII
Just imagine. You want to build a home, so you buy a $23,000 piece of land in a residential subdivision in your hometown and get started. The government then tells you to stop, threatens you with $40 million in fines and is not kidding.
That's the case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, with briefs being filed today by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of a Priest Lake, Idaho, family, Chantell and Mike Sackett.
Attorney Damien Schiff, who will be arguing before the high court in the case, said it's simply a case of a government run amok, and it poses a potential threat to perhaps not every landowner across the nation, but untold millions.
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The EPA should not have the power to fine anyone.
There it is. No one to go after. The EPA puts us into serfdom.
The EPA is EVIL.
Welcome to Moscow!
I was late paying the sewerage bill to the tune of two weeks. The bill was $73.15. I got a letter in the mail right after I had sent the payment out that was very threatening. It said that a lien was going to be put on my house, and that our property was going to be put on a list of properties that would be sold by the tax assessors office come December 21st. I sent a rather harsh letter to the Sewerage authority and sent a complaint to the Mayor(running for re-election by the way). We got a phone call from the supervisor as soon as they opened to assure us that they weren’t going to sell our property for a $73.15 bill. My husband reiterated that it said in the letter that it was going to be sold. That is when he transferred my husband to an idiot that said that we were consistently late for years ( I would pay a week to two weeks late), so basically, if you irritate some moron in the sewerage authority enough by paying too late for their liking, they will terrorize you by threatening to sell your house to satisfy a $73.15 bill. This is how people lose their properties in this country! Over stupid things like this, backed up by ridiculous laws! God help all of us!
I hope he would also limit it to 500 employees and/or on-site consultants.
ML/NJ
The EPA must be reigned in.
Just get rid of the EPA. Send all the employees out to their parking lots to wait for recall. If not recalled in 3 days, go find work elsewhere.
No. Just tear it down!
If we cannot abolish the EPA- and we really DO need to- then the states should start flexing the 10th amendment and demanding that the EPA back off and that NO regulations put in place by them will be honored until the state legislators VOTE on it.
We should also be tearing after our fed representatives to take on the funding of the EPA, and its regulations.
ALL of the domestic agencies are nothing more than the executive branch’s attempt to subvert Congress. END THEM NOW!
Wow. Eliminating just the employees would save $900 million. Do it!
The EPA is evil.
We have a friend who bought twenty acres in Temecula Valley, CA. Wanted to start a vineyard.
The EPA stepped in for some reason and said fine go ahead but you can only use these five acres.
He can’t access the five because the EPA chose the five that are away from any road, and he can’t cut a road across the remaining fifteen.
Just writing that sounds stupid, I read the ruling and it literally makes no sense and there is no reason given prohibiting the use.
So his twenty acres are essentially useless.
I loath the EPA.
Not subvert congress, but the constitution.
Only in regulatory agencies are they the judge, jury and executioner.
This is not permitted anywhere else. Oh yes, the IRS is one of those as well.
This isn’t a partisan issue. If you look at the facts, the EPA came down on the Sacketts during the time of the Bush administration. Now it’s the Obama administration and the Sacketts are still in EPA’s crosshairs. Doesn’t seem to matter what party is in the White House, we’re still at the mercy of the bureaucrats. Here, it’s a middle class couple threatened with ruin by big government. Hopefully the US Supreme Court will show some concern for them — and us.
EPA = Domestic terrorist group.
And the idiot politicians wonder why increasing numbers of Americans despise the federal government.
It is an evil versus sanity issue.
The EPA is out of control.
The EPA currently has over 18,000 employees.
Doesn’t seem to matter what party is in the White House, we’re still at the mercy of the bureaucrats
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