JANET LEVY: GUESS WHICH IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE FEDERAL AGENCY? ****
3) The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) $ 142 billion per year
2) Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) $ 184.8 billion per year
1) EnvironMental Perversion Agency (EPA) $ 353 billion per year
The “most expensive” translates into the most powerful.
As Iain Murray noted in The Really Inconvenient Truths, the false notions advanced by the EPA have led to questionable regulations and policies to “save” the environment, including the effort to limit access to vital energy resources (except in Brazil) and impinge on private property rights. In actuality, these policies have endangered more species, caused more human fatalities and squandered more energy.
EnvironMentalism has been used as an anti-capitalism tool, employing faulty data and politically engineered studies to restrict personal freedom, increase government control and spending, reduce or limit economic growth and curtail free enterprise all the while continuing to masquerade as a benevolent protector of natural resources.
(NOTE: The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most powerful pieces of legislation on the books. No other government mission overrules the ESA’s objective of protecting endangered species. (They take precedence over humans). The law can even close military bases and training facilities. The effects of the ESA are so far-reaching that it enables the U.S. government to prohibit property owners from using their land with no reimbursement provided for its disuse and reduced value and no cessation of customary taxation. The ESA does NOT specify a time frame or plan for completion of species recovery. ESA violations carry steep fines in excess of $50,000 and imprisonment of up to one year. Rewards are issued to individuals who report violators).
Janet Levy,
Los Angeles
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