Thank you for referencing that article Twotone. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following. If the parents of the referenced farmer had made sure that their son was taught about the federal government’s constitutional limited powers the way that the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, then the farmer would probably be able to argue the following against the EPA.
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The major constitutional problem with all federal regulatory agencies is this imo. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress, to clarifiy that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in the non-elected federal bureaucrats running so-called federal regulatory agencies like EPA and IRS.
So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. But by delegating federal legislative / regulatory powers to non-elected federal officials outside the legislative branch, Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath the of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above imo.
But what’s even worse about the EPA is this. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate environmental issues. So not only is Congress wrongly delegating regulatory powers to federal officials outside the legislative branch, but Congress is delegating powers that the states have never delegated to Congress!
Also, consider that by letting everybody outside the legislative branch steal legislative powers to make unconstitutional federal government policies, corrupt lawmakers are protecting their voting records, probably to fool low-information patriots into reelecting them.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach, including abolishing unconstitutional federal regulatory agencies like the EPA and IRS.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Excellent comments! I’ve been pushing all the candidates I’ve met to familiarize themselves with the federal land issue & how we need to force the fed gov’t to return state lands. Most have been receptive. That would be a good way to start reducing the size of the gov’t by eliminating the agencies that ‘manage’ these lands. And then we can tackle the agencies that are involving themselves where they have no constitutional authority.