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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]

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To: blam

left wing authoritarianism everywhere you look.


61 posted on 07/09/2014 9:10:54 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (liberalism is a cancer that destroys everything it gets control of.)
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To: blam
The EPA sounds like the California Franchise Tax Board.

5.56mm

62 posted on 07/09/2014 9:13:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: blam; All

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


63 posted on 07/09/2014 9:21:32 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Logical me

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.


64 posted on 07/09/2014 9:24:51 AM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: Personal Responsibility; All
Regarding post 63 of this thread, please consider the following.

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.

65 posted on 07/09/2014 9:28:10 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: blam

Looking forward to the litigation.


66 posted on 07/09/2014 9:37:08 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: blam
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.

67 posted on 07/09/2014 9:39:09 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: blam

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.


68 posted on 07/09/2014 9:51:01 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: blam
EPA needs to be eliminated.
It does great harm with almost no compensating value.
It drains the treasury to function and enrich its bureaucratic legions while doing great, unnecessary harm to private sector business and individual citizens.
69 posted on 07/09/2014 10:20:46 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: NormsRevenge
"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.

70 posted on 07/09/2014 10:26:33 AM PDT by blam
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To: Objective Scrutator

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.


71 posted on 07/09/2014 10:26:41 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: SkyDancer
Very good description of the early years of the EPA versus the malevolency it evolved to. From my experience, the EPA shifted its mission largely in the Jimmy Carter tenure as it began to phase out its engineer and scientist driven culture to one dominated by lawyers and agenda driven activists of various stripes. For several decades, the best and brightest of their tech experts have become fewer in number and largely kept in a closet away from non-managed interaction with the public lest a political agenda be compromised. Republican administrations and Congress have been unable or unwilling to wind the EPA back to its positive roots.
72 posted on 07/09/2014 10:43:28 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: Hootowl99

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.


73 posted on 07/09/2014 10:50:14 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarc tag?)
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To: 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.”

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?


74 posted on 07/09/2014 10:59:03 AM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: VerySadAmerican

—so many people.? I guess you mean in the EPA? That bunch has been ovedue for a budget cut for a long time.


75 posted on 07/09/2014 11:05:12 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: reg45

“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.


76 posted on 07/09/2014 11:05:50 AM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: x1stcav

I said that to my wife last evening, ironic.


77 posted on 07/09/2014 11:33:00 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: henkster

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3177850/posts?page=45#45

Link in this post is where you can put comments; yours is a good one!


78 posted on 07/09/2014 11:46:31 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: nathanbedford

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3177850/posts?page=45#45

Go to the link in the above post, you can put your comments in there.

Yours is an excellent one!


79 posted on 07/09/2014 11:47:46 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: blam

SHADOW ON THE LAND
80 posted on 07/09/2014 11:52:15 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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