"If Government is Arrogance, The EPA Is Fascism!"
By Ron Ewart, President of the
National Association of Rural Landowners
and founder of the
Devoted to the noble goal of getting Americans to think LIKE Americans and acting FOR America.
© Copyright Sunday, March 31, 2013 - All Rights Reserved
Note: This is our second article in the series of "Why Government is Your Enemy."
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. Thomas Frank, contemporary American author
Perhaps the best way to start this column is to relate an actual story of a husband and wife in Idaho who were the recipients of EPA's fascism. Michael and Chantell Sackett, husband and wife, had purchased a building lot in a subdivision in the Pan Handle of Idaho, near Priest Lake. They had obtained permits to build their home and were readying the lot for the foundation, which required some filling and some leveling of the lot.
