In the early 1970s the Supreme Court ruled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be unconstitutional in the Mack/Printz decision. We wonder why then do we still have the EPA making its own laws and enforcing all its regulations as if it were judge, jury, and executioner, and acting as if it owned our states and counties.
The easy answer is, we have all gone to sleep and we trusted someone the Founders warned us to never trust: politicians and bureaucrats.
The EPA now issues fines to citizens without due process; no hearings, no trials, no “innocent until proven guilty” requirements. It does whatever it wants to whomever it wants and there’s very little we can do about it.
The federal government is not our boss, and therefore, the EPA is not our boss. It has no law enforcement authority or jurisdiction within the states whatsoever. Local officials, county commissions, sheriffs, and county attorneys should make certain that local citizens are protected from the bizarre regulations of this outlaw DC bureaucracy. 1. The EPA does not have law enforcement authority. 2. The EPA is not allowed to make its own laws. 3. The EPA routinely violates the principles of federalism and state sovereignty. 4. The states can and should control their own geography and natural resources. 5. The states are not subject to federal direction.
(Mack/Printz v US)
The EPA has destroyed more jobs in America than all the recessions and depressions combined.
No matter how worthy or benevolent the cause, if it does not coincide with our Constitution, then the government is not allowed to do it.
Marion McKeever
Schroeder
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