Posted on 11/10/2022 6:30:51 PM PST by Hojczyk
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Surveillance,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan stated that he doesn’t think the 2022 midterms will change the fact that the agency has been given power “to pursue the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to protect public health and protect the planet” through regulations and that the agency got a boost in its goals from the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Regan said, “Well, the president has had a historic two years in passing historic legislation, with the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Inflation Reduction Act, resources coming to EPA to help with and enhance the regulations that we are required to put in place by law. So, I don’t think the elections will change the fact that EPA has legislative authority or authority provided by the legislature or Congress, to pursue the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to protect public health and protect the planet. We’re going to continue to move forward and do our job, but the resources that flow from the Inflation Reduction Act [do] help with that public-private partnership to pursue these reductions. So, we’re not solely reliant on regulations alone.”
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Time to disband all federal departments…except defense and state..
Bipartisan—— democrats and depublicans aka rinos aka unipartiers.
Fools they have to steal to keep it and lie to hide it
The very definition of “Deep State” — rogue agencies acting in defiance of legally authorized oversight. They just keep doing whatever they want to do despite any laws passed by Congress or directives from the president.
Unelected bureaucrats acting as if they are the elected representatives of our Contituional Republic.
Fire them all and start over again from scratch.
Works for me.🤔
The next Republican President needs to declare massive RIFs (Reduction in Force) for several agencies. EPA, ATF, IRS, etc.
Just cut their funds.
Bipartisan—— democrats and depublicans aka rinos aka unipartiers.
Fools they have to steal to try and keep it and lie to hide it
The arrogance is amazing.
If we stop funding you you sure as hell will
Giving small people just enough power to feel big.
Death by a thousand agencies.
Regulate this! YOU HAVE NO BUDGET!
What would be wonderful is Republican Governors and Sheriffs running the EPA out of town every chance they get.
Isn’t the EPA one of those agencies that was formed without any authority or proper procedures?
You could cut the state dept by about 75% if not 100%. In its current form, it’s an outdated dinosaur from days gone by.
No need for the taxpayer to fund massive embassies, pay the salaries of diplomats and tuitions of private schools to the tune of $20-30k a year in some countries for diplomat kids, for a group of people that hate America, for the most part.
Decades ago when communications were Morse code and world travel took weeks, it may have been necessary. Right now you can talk to someone on the other side of the world with an iPhone and be anywhere in less than a day.
The State Dept should have no role in trade negotiations as Pres Trump’s team of Ross, Mnuchin, Lighthizer and Navarro proved.
So, other than the War Department, as it should be called, most of the other ones could be disappeared and no one would notice.
There will be a court fight, over whether the stupid IRAct does give the EPA that mandate... I pray it goes our way, but I’m not certain it will.
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
The Aamerican people now understand that the First Amendment calls for them to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
“With the house we have the power of the purse. Cut them off at the knees or any other suitable appendage.”
At best, we have a razor thin majority in the House. Some are Republicans. Others are weak sisters.
They will not venture into such dangerous areas that you suggest.
To get anything substantial done, we needed a whopping victory that makes the Kinzinger and Cheney types irrelevant.
They might stop some of the very worst ideas out of the Biden administration.
Not one word in the Constitution about regulating things that affect commerce but are not commerce at all.
Thing is, if the arguments for a power are so very obvious and an easy sell as people often insist they are why not do things properly rather than just abandon governance by constitutional means?
They need to be sued to force them to do the right thing.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While the EPA is arguably a good idea, please consider the following major constitutional problems with EPA and many other constitutionally undefined, so-called "federal regulatory agencies" imo.
The problem with non-elected bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal agencies, the EPA in this example, is that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to police the environment.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So not only is the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress wrongly letting federal bureaucrats get away with stealing and exercising unique state powers to police environment, but career lawmakers wrongly establish big bad federal regulatory agencies probably to protect their voting records.
More specifically, by keeping their voting records clean by letting federal bureaucrats get away with stealing state powers to dictate environmental policy, constitutionally low information citizens who have probably never been taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers unthinkingly reelect crook lawmakers over and over again.
Insights welcome.
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