SHADOW ON THE LAND
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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left wing authoritarianism everywhere you look.
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As mentioned in related threads concerning constitutionally undefined “independent federal regulatory agencies” like the EPA, please consider the following.
In the case of the EPA, the states have never delegated to the federal government, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate environmental issues, environmental protections a 10th Amendment-protected intrastate power issue. So the EPA is wrongly based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers. And with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Nixon, and while I serously doubt the willingness of private industry to self-police itself concerning the protection of the environment, Nixon was wrong to sign the bill that established the EPA.
And even if the states had delegated to Congress the specific power to address environmental issues, the Founding States had also made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative power are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in nonelected bureaucrats like those running the EPA.
So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. And by delegating federal legislative / regulatory powers to nonelected bureaucrats, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.
As a side note concerning the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc
We don’t actually need the EPA at all. Private industry is good at self-policing its pollution levels, while local initiatives through private charities are far better for clean-ups than an inefficient and bloated federal government is.
A government which has the power to tell you how to dispose of waste is a government which has the power to tell you how you can mow your own lawn. The EPA, should it be allowed to continue its existence, will inevitably ban all gas-powered lawnmowers, whether it be under the overhyped “pollution” umbrella or the mythical and malicious “greenhouse gases” label.
In addition to the states never granting the federal government the specific power to regulate environmental issues, the states have also never delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate intrastate labor issues including making rules concerning wages.
Looking forward to the litigation.
What don't you folks understand? Gauleiter McCarthy can run her Reichsgau as she damn well pleases.
I'm sure the Fuhrer made that clear when he first took power.
People in this country has, with a few short exceptions, been run by a democrat fascist Congress for the past eighty years. What the National Socialist Democrat Authoritan Party wants, the NSDAP gets so why should they care whether or not something they do is legal yet?
Democrat fascists can be sure that if they want to do something it'll be legal for them to do it before long. If there are repercussions for doing it a little early they'll be pardoned. 99.99% of the time the worst that can happen to them is they leave government and are given a well paid position within the democrat academic propaganda machine.
That Tricky Dick! He had a dark sense of humour.. picking Ford, who was of collegiate football concussion(s) and JFK investigation fame.. wicked sense of humour.
Ford was the only person to be vice president and president without ever being elected to either office.
While I agree with severely curtailing (or outright abolishing) the EPA
Private industry is good at self-policing its pollution levels
This is demonstrably false.
The EPA is like the labor union movement. Once upon a time, they both served positive purposes. Those purposes have now been accomplished.
Both have become unnecessary evils.
“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.”
The key word here is ‘accused’. Without getting your day in court, seeing an administrative law judge at best, who is employed by the EPA, what could go wrong?
They will accuse you of something then seize your bank accounts and file liens on your property, thereby tying up the funds you need to defend yourself from their most likely bogus charges. As I said, what could go wrong?
—so many people.? I guess you mean in the EPA? That bunch has been ovedue for a budget cut for a long time.
“Wouldn’t that violate the “takings clause” of the Constitution.”
Yes it does but they and other Federal agencies have been doing this for years. They lock up your funds so you can’t defend yourself. If the EPA gets by with this there will no longer be private property in the US. This is intimidation and blackmail by a bunch of thugs not qualified for any real work other than government. If they were canned they would be flipping burgers for Mickey D’s.
I said that to my wife last evening, ironic.
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