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EPA Claims It Has The Power To Garnish Wages Without Court Approval
Fox News ^ | 7-9-2014 | Fox New

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; actionrequired; corruption; democrats; epa; government; needtocomment; obama; post104wnewlink; seeposts19and22
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To: blam

Lawless president, lawless agencies. CWII.


41 posted on 07/09/2014 7:41:29 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Innovative; LucyT; Republicanprofessor; maggief; null and void; hoosiermama; onyx; crosslink; ...

All y’all, Ping to this post!

Need more comments at the EPA site; there are only about 16 so far.... need to get this info out there....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3177850/posts?page=22#22

Innovative’s post:

” I found where to comment on this.

I urge everyone to comment —the rule is described and there is a “comment” button on the top right:

Administrative Wage Garnishment

http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA_FRDOC_0001-15898


42 posted on 07/09/2014 7:44:08 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: x1stcav
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

F U B O!


43 posted on 07/09/2014 7:44:28 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Innovative

Adverse public comments? Any member of the public, a diplomatic way of saying subject or slave, making an adverse comment is just placing a huge target on themselves.


44 posted on 07/09/2014 7:44:47 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Innovative; LucyT; Republicanprofessor; maggief; null and void; hoosiermama; onyx; crosslink; ...

All y’all, Ping to this post!

Need more comments at the EPA site; there are only about 16 so far.... need to get this info out there....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3177850/posts?page=22#22

Innovative’s post:

” I found where to comment on this.

I urge everyone to comment —the rule is described and there is a “comment” button on the top right:

Administrative Wage Garnishment

http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA_FRDOC_0001-15898


45 posted on 07/09/2014 7:46:16 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

Does the EPA run their own SWAT TEAMS? Do EPA’s ‘armies’ of thugs have the power to kill free citizens? If so, the right to steal our money can’t be a surprise.


46 posted on 07/09/2014 7:48:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (Remember the oath is to "support and defend the Constitution" not the President.FRrfreedom4u)
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To: Timber Rattler; Innovative; LucyT; Republicanprofessor; maggief; null and void; hoosiermama; ...

Also see #29 for another link to comments page:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3177850/posts?page=29#29


47 posted on 07/09/2014 7:48:45 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: GOPJ

Dunno about if they have their own “army”, but the taking of money is far easier than taking territory.

Money can be grabbed by a document and some computer keystrokes.

Territory on the other hand.....


48 posted on 07/09/2014 7:52:46 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: reg45
How about a wholesale violation of the doctrine of separation of powers.

Here the executive branch (article 2) performs an article 1 function and, in effect, legislates. It then reverts to its article 2 role and prosecutes. Then it assumes article 3 status and conducts a hearing to determine guilt or innocence. It continues in that role as it imposes a fine. It then reverts to its article 2 role and concludes that it will garnishee wages in payment of the fine which it has imposed after a hearing which it has conducted in an article 3 role.

Of course I recognize that there are administrative hearings and administrative prosecutorial actions but what I am complaining about is the consolidation of all these roles in one unelected, unresponsive bureaucracy which is increasingly being improperly used in substitution for legislation. Presumably, legislation is more receptive to the will of the people than regulations fashion by anonymous bureaucrats but the absence of such legislation, which has been defaulted to bureaucrats, actually represents the will of the people that no action should not be taken.

The article 5 movement contemplates as one of its reforms an amendment that says that regulations that are not affirmatively ratified by Congress within a specified time period automatically become null and void.


49 posted on 07/09/2014 7:59:58 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: blam

Thank the Framers for their constitution of 1787.


50 posted on 07/09/2014 8:03:11 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V)
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To: I want the USA back

The EPA was out of control long before Obama.


51 posted on 07/09/2014 8:11:27 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: Innovative

17 now. I posted this:

This is an outrage! Who the hell do you people think you are? You grant yourselves the right to unilaterally garnish wages now? What country do you think this is?

CONSIDER THIS AN ADVERSE RESPONSE, YOU GOOSE STEPPING HARPIES!


52 posted on 07/09/2014 8:15:02 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: blam

Simple question to Republican candidates for POTUS: “Do you have a list of federal employees of the EPA, IRS, ATF, Justice Department, FBI, NSA, etc., who have clearly broken the law and will be fired when you assume office, prior to federal criminal charges being filed against them? As well as those who have already left office to evade criminal charges?”


53 posted on 07/09/2014 8:16:27 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Innovative

Thank you for the comment section.


54 posted on 07/09/2014 8:19:17 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: blam
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

55 posted on 07/09/2014 8:44:26 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: griswold3
(Notice the ‘non-Federal wages’ distinction?)

I certainly do...but it is definitely nothingnew. The feds are exempt on everything.

FMCDH(BITS)

56 posted on 07/09/2014 8:44:43 AM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: Red Badger
Lots of guitars out there.................The high E-String...

I prefer the low E string with lots of back and forth motion. Kind of like a fine saw.

FMCDH(BITS)

57 posted on 07/09/2014 8:54:46 AM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: reg45; nathanbedford
It's actually a Due Process Violation under the 5th Amendment:

No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...

Any imposition of a fine, and collection thereof, without basic Due Process rights, by the Federal Government of the United States, is a violation of this clause. Those Due Process rights (going from memory) are:

Notice of claim

Reasonable time to respond

Setting of Hearing before a Court or detached neutral magistrate, and notice of hearing

Burden of proof at said hearing on the government

Right to appear at the hearing, be represented by counsel, to see, hear, confront and cross examine the government's evidence, right to present evidence, and secure presentation of evidence by compulsory process enforced by the Court, and the right to appeal an adverse decision.

These rights are clearly violated by this policy.

The Takings Clause immediately follows:

...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation...

The EPA routinely violates this provision of the 5th Amendment by classifying lands as "environmentally protected."

What should now be apparent to everyone is that our Constitutional Rights and liberties are dead letters. Those God-given rights have been supplanted by State-given "collective" and "positive" rights, with which all of the individual rights embodied in the Bill of Rights are philosophically incompatible. You cannot have both.

This was inconceivable when Nixon created the EPA, What has changed is that Federal Government's various fiefdoms have grown so large, so pervasive and so powerful that they no longer recognize any restraints whatsoever on their power. Not only do they not recognize any restraint on their power over the American people, I believe they don't recognize any restraint on their power as against each other under Separation of Powers principles.

58 posted on 07/09/2014 8:55:51 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarc tag?)
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To: nothingnew

Better gripping power for sure....................;^)


59 posted on 07/09/2014 8:58:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,759 threads and 85,158 replies...............)
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60 posted on 07/09/2014 9:02:51 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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