PrintApril 10, 2007
The Supreme Court Turns the Ratchet
Conservatives are properly aghast at the United States Supreme Court's April 2, 2007 decision. It ruled that the United States Environmental Protection Agency can, if it wants, regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, whatever the law may say.But really, what is so surprising? All they have done, the liberal wing and the moderates, is give the ratchet of compulsion one more turn.Last week's decision amounts to this: On one more issue the bullying class will have the power to tax Americans and order them around to its heart's content-assuming that it has a heart. What's not to like if you are a liberal?Let us rehearse the trail of tears in this cruel age of compulsion.First they came for the children. In a nation that was 90 percent literate the bullying class decided in the mid-nineteenth century to force everyone to pay for "free" education. Then they decided to force parents to send their children to the free schools. Every year the...(Read Full Article)
