President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

When people do the "need the EPA to tell people what to do, or else they will poison the water supply," thing, they have no clue that they aren't being progressive (the way they think), they are being statist.

We are a nation of laws. We don't punish people preemptively (and without due process), to ensure they don't somehow harm others.

Look at it with regard to any other thing we want to restrict. ... Something small, for example. We have laws against shoplifting.

We don't have a Commerce Protection Agency. We do it the way FREE societies do it. We have a criminal and civil court system that deals with people who DO shoplift (or cause others all kinds of harm, from little things to big things).

The "EPA solution," and what it practically became (which was entirely predictable when the agency was created) for shoplifting would be to create a bureaucracy (subject to lobbyists and corrupution. ... entities able to buy competitive advantages) that sprawls all over the place, and morphs into something that requires expensive permits for people to shop, and restricts where they are allowed to walk when they enter a store, restricts what merchandise they can touch or look at and how, etc. and costs them time, money, choices in what they can buy, etc.

And if people question how costly and inefficient it is. ... well, they get told that we absolutely need that system and appointed tools "regulating" our behavior, because without them we wouldn't be able to make sure that there is no shoplifting.

 

Preventative measures = Big Brother.

No thanks. I'll take individual rights (with all of the potential harm others might do to each other). ... over Kim Jong Un or Nicolas Maduro or whatever more righteous appointed administrator of our lives that you think you judiciously are going to give us.

I find it arrogant at best. That we need you to tell us who is going to dictate our lives for us.

Predictably, it always gets sold as "preventative measures." What we end up with are power-hungry and corrupt bureaucracies that exist to feed themselves and become more and more "preventative" about what the people it now rules over can and can't do.

You reap what you sow.