Troubling word comes via the news channels of the EPA classing CO2 as a pollutant. In addition, issuing a warning to congress if they don’t pass Cap and Trade, the EPA will take a “Command and Control” role in enforcing the Obama’s Global Warming agenda.
This is troubling for several reasons, including the specter of any government agency going rogue and acting as a law unto itself, without authorization from congress, bypassing the rule of law. Wait… Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there a government agency doing this now?
From Fox News:
The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn’t move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a “command-and-control” role over the process in a way that could hurt business.
The warning, from a top White House economic official who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity, came on the eve of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s address to the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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“If you don’t pass this legislation, then … the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area,” the official said. “And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it’s going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty.”
What’s next? A tax on every person in the United States for simply breathing? After all, humans (among many other life on Earth) exhale CO2.
Imagine for a moment that the ATF declared similar powers. What if the Department of Health and Human Services declared that firearms were a health hazard and acted without congressional approval to “protect” us? Far fetched you say? I don’t think so.
This should scare anyone who values their rights, let alone their pocket book.
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