Sure, if you like the smell of burning rivers in the morning, and want to model your new neighborhood after Love Canal.

General Welfare Clause. The Constitution wasn’t meant to limit government departments to exactly those that existed in late 1700s.

People who want to dismantle government are threatening the rights of Americans to clean air, water, food, etc. We need a Federal regulatory agency of some form. Pollution doesn’t stop at state lines.

For every example of overreach, there are 100 of the EPA addressing legitimate issues.

[quote=harvey][quote=paramount]Yes, the EPA should be abolished, or the Constitution should be amended to permit the congress to regulate the environment.[/quote]

Yes, the Air Force should be abolished, or the Constitution should be amended to permit the congress to fund a service chartered with military aviation.[/quote]

borrowing from the “whataboutism” USSR playbook

http://www.economist.com/node/10598774

Yes, “defined benefit public pensions” be abolished, or the Constitution should be amended to permit “defined benefit public pensions”

Yes, “Calif DMV” be abolished, or the Constitution should be amended to permit “Calif DMV”

etc…

(PS I know state vs federal BUT what ever…)

😉

My suspicions about the malevolence of the EPA, FDA, etc. is not concerned as much with overreach as with falsity.

Blogstar, environmental protection is a weapon that some people use.
Your country folk neighbor maybe have called the EPA on you, but he’s likely for the its abolition.
I’ve heard of conservative country folks in Wyoming and Montana who normally don’t want any government interference, using environment reasons to prevent rich outsiders coming to build their dream homes, out of jealousy really.

A lot of times environmental hurdles are weapons of opposition.

But not regulating lead paint for about 100 years and poisoning millions of people is pretty unforgivable.

corporations were relatively rare items during the constitution writing. What would the founding fathers think of the ubiqitiuos stature today and the carte Blanche avoidance of accountability that comes with it for the shareholders and largely the people running it.

What would they think of chemical manufactured for mass sale and distribution that have lasting detrimental effects?

What’s would they think of corps poisoning the water with chemicals you can’t see? Can’t smell? Can’t taste? That kill you?

What would they think of corporations owning food crops and using the court to put people out of business when then corporation food crop contaminates the person crop ?

[quote=harvey][quote=paramount]Yes, it’s true. Defense is an enumerated power, environmental tyranny is not.[/quote]

General Welfare is an enumerated power.

LOL, it’s in the same friggin sentence as “common Defense”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers

Did you live in Escondido back in 2009?

http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-c-2849%5B/quote%5D

The Onion: “America’s largest marxist news source”

The general welfare clause is the power to tax – for general welfare and does not supersede enumerated powers.

Besides, the EPA was really organized via the executive, not congress. Positively unconstitutional.