EPA Claims It Has The Power To Garnish Wages Without Court Approval

Fox News ^ | 7-9-2014 | Fox New

[blam]

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."

[HiTech RedNeck]

Hoo boy this needs Freeping. A banner on FR?

[ourworldawry]

“You grant yourselves the right to unilaterally garnish wages now? What country do you think this is?”

The country we have allowed them to make.

[Personal Responsibility]

And who will impeach these politicians? Other politicians? That leaves us where we are today.

I’m sorry to be the wet blanket here but expecting government officials police themselves and restrict themselves to what the Constitutuion allows - and not try to push the boundaries and talk their way thru it - is naive. They are just people, people who want the money, power and connections that being “in power” brings.

[Innovative]

I posted another article on the subject, giving blam credit for being the first to post this outrageous illegal overreach by the EPA.

Hey, let’s give the EPA unrestrained power to garnish wages (w/o court order) (Action Required)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3179338/posts

I gave a link to where to comment in my post 22 on this thread, and just found that they changed that link — I guess they didn’t like our comments.

But I found the new link:

http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA-HQ-OA-2014-0012-0002

Please keep those comments going — there are 256 now, but let’s get to 1000 before the deadline of Aug 1.