Posted on 07/03/2014 2:21:23 PM PDT by Outside da Box
Just in time for the Fourth of July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has added a new regulatory weapon to its arsenal.
In a Federal Register notice on July 2 titled “Administrative Wage Garnishment,” the EPA stated that by the authority of the Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA ) of 1996 it issued a proposed rule that “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.” According to the Treasury Department, under DCIA, such debts include “unpaid loans, overpayments or duplicate payments made to federal salary or benefit payment recipients, misused grant funds, and fines, penalties or fees assessed by federal agencies.”
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What?
Want to post a comment against the action, well remember that the EPA has a SWAT team and their stated purpose is to swat dissent.
Another heavily armed gestapo agency. Part of Obama’s civilian army against American citizens.
They just make it up as they go along
These ba$7@rds are going to need a protective environment before they get through.
IOW, they’ll just take it, no questions asked. No appeal, no nothing..............
And yet a very large number of government employees have unpaid taxes, student loans, parking tickets...
Bring It On!
They list a lot of possibile targets, but to me, the real target is “fines.”
So, if someone has a beef with the EPA, they can levy outrageous fines, even before protest and litigation, and then suck the financial life out of their target by garnishing income.
About garnishment by the government: To me, it’s different than garnishment by the winner of a civil suit. It’s not like the government needs the money.
/johnny
I didn’t know that the EPA was authorized to collect alleged outstanding debts.
they do now ,they said so
/johnny
Hey, it is non Federal Pay. So the Goverment employees are exempt!
Funny, but do you think that's what they meant by the phrase, or did they mean pensions, like Social Security? .... so the government wouldn't be garnishing it's own checks /S
If not, it's a violation of due process, unusual punishment, etc., if there has been no court proceeding.
-PJ
The EPA needs to be abolished.
America is broke. We can not afford these bloated useless agencies..
Remember the stories you have read about farmers, cattle ranchers, dairy farmers, etc., who the EPA have fined.
Remember that the EPA is trying to get every little creek and even wet weather ditches declared navigable waters so they can control the land on which those things are located.
You could have a lot in town that has rain runoff from land above you and be declared in a wetland.
They are crazy...power crazy, and no one is safe.
Don't remember the details, but only a month or two ago there was a couple in the news being fined thousands of dollars each and every day over some small pond they had built.
They are fighting it an d that is the sort of person this rule is intended to destroy.
We have a government that is exactly what the founders feared.
Tyranny. It is here.
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