Greenbeard
Gold Member
That is what I want.
No EPA.
No Federal Dept. Of Education
What does that mean? Executive branch agencies or offices or departments or whatever executive federal laws. So is this is a statement about the organization of the executive branch (e.g. so-and-such function can be transferred to Department X) or are you actually calling for repeal of, for example, the Clean Air Act? Its provisions and enforcement predate the creation of the EPA, so you're either suggesting that someone else should, as they did before the EPA was created, handle enforcement of its provisions or no one should enforce its provisions, which obviously requires repealing the law.
The same thing goes for the federal role in education, which obviously far predates the creation of the Department of Education a few decades ago:
Historical Note: The federal Office of Education was created on March 2, 1867. It became part of the Department of the Interior on July 1, 1889. As of July 1, 1939 it was placed under the Federal Security Agency of the Department of the Interior where it remained until the creation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) in 1953. The Commissioner of Education reported directly to the Secretary of HEW until 1972 when an Education Division was created, headed by the Assistant Secretary for Education. The Office of the Commissioner of Education ceased to exist when the Department of Education was created in 1980.
So are you simply asking for a new federal organizational chart in which the feds still have the same responsibilities or do you really want to start knocking down some laws? And if it's the latter, why not say that? Saying "get rid of the EPA" when you really mean "repeal the Clean Air Act" is cryptic to the point of dishonesty.