Well, if they pay anything it’s with taxpayer dollars, or should I say, your, mine and our dollars. The government cannot lose, can it? Unless the EPA is disbanded, all those folks go jobless and certain ones go to jail. Ain’t gonna happen. A couple of low level room temperature IQ and field types will be fired, and that’s probably it. And the millions/billions it will cost to clean up will be paid by you. End of story.
Congress should deduct it from their budget.
That sounds about like how it will go.
I was once very interested in disbanding the EPA, or repealing the "EPA law". I even went to the point of having a crack at drafting legislation.
But, it's not so simple.
The "EPA" was not created by Congress, and, should it cease to exist, the laws it is charged with enforcing would still be on the books. Those laws, passed by Congress and signed by four Presidents between 1955 and 1970, grant legislative authority to the President and command that he "end pollution in all waters of the United States", etc, etc.
The EPA problem exists because those laws exist. It's the laws that are unreasonable, not the particular executive mechanism for seeing that they are enforced.
Now, it's true that grants of legislative authority to unaccountable bureaucrats + a President who hates America causes big problems.
But, the EPA was created to SIMPLIFY enforcement of laws that previously required environazis at Agriculture, Interior, Justice, Health, Education, and Welfare, Commerce, Labor, and many other entities within the Executive Branch.
End the EPA and leave the laws that made it necessary in place, and you will simply multiply the bureaucracy twenty-fold.
you really think anyone gets fired?