Fascism Facilitated By Regulation
The system was supposed to be pretty simple, so much so that even a moderately educated person could understand it. The Legislative Branch was supposed to craft and pass laws – codified by either the president’s signature or a veto override, the Executive Branch was to execute those laws, and the Judicial Branch was to determine the constitutionality of passed laws and transgressions against them. But today, the opportunists and grifters of “The Swamp” have gamed the system to facilitate and feed a fascist oligarchy.
Today, Congress crafts substandard pieces of legislation – extremely general in nature – and allows the Executive Branch departments, agencies, and commissions to establish rules, regulations, and determinations with the coercive force of law, often time expanding government powers less the congressional authorization to do so and including unintended domain under their purview.
In effect, Congress has ceded its legislative authority to the Executive Branch departments, agencies, and commissions, illegally transgressing the separation of powers as mandated by the US Constitution. It has been this way ever since President Woodrow Wilson – a “Progressive” academic – cajoled Congress to the idea that “experts” were more qualified than the elected class to govern the people.
Examples of how this unconstitutional scheme affects us directly come in two instances, one involving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and another in a cadre of alphabet agencies related to the financial sector.
Self-Acquired Authority To Define Taxability
A week after the IRS urged millions of taxpayers to delay filing their tax returns until it could craft “additional clarification” about the “taxability” of last year’s state stimulus payments, the IRS issued a statement decreeing that most relief checks issued by states last year are not subject to federal taxes.
How very benevolent of them.
As The Epoch Times reported:
With that clarification finally issued, it is now known that various forms of general welfare and disaster relief payments don’t have to be reported by taxpayers in the following 17 states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
“If a taxpayer does not include the amount of one of these payments in its 2022 income for federal income tax purposes, the IRS will not challenge the treatment of the 2022 payment as excludable for income on an original or amended return,” the agency said.
Additionally, the following four states are special cases in terms of stimulus check taxability because they issued relief payments in the form of refunds of state taxes paid: Georgia, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Relief payments from these four states – which came in the form of tax refunds – can be excluded from income for federal tax purposes…
One comment under a social media post about this subject laid it all out quite plainly saying, “Taxation without representation,” and rightly so. No act of Congress – the only entity charged with the authority to “lay and collect taxes” – was undertaken, yet the IRS is making decisions on what is taxable and what is not.
The IRS routinely crafts new tax code regulations without any act of Congress authorizing it to do so. So, if the Constitution plainly states that Congress is the only governmental entity authorized to levy taxes, how is it legal for an Executive Branch agency to decide what is taxed, what is not, and how much?
Taking Down An Industry To Protect The Swamp
Another unlegislated abuse of power by the Executive Branch bureaucracy comes to us in how the regulatory sphere is targeting the cryptocurrency industry in an attempt to defend the unholy banking conglomerate that is the Federal Reserve banking system.
ZeroHedge.com reports:
…the US government is using the banking sector to organize a sophisticated, widespread crackdown against the crypto industry. And the administration’s efforts are no secret: they’re expressed plainly in memos, regulatory guidance, and blog posts. However, the breadth of this plan — spanning virtually every financial regulator — as well as its highly coordinated nature, has even the most steely-eyed crypto veterans nervous that crypto businesses might end up completely unbanked, stablecoins may be stranded and unable to manage flows in and out of crypto, and exchanges might be shut off from the banking system entirely…
…in recent weeks, the intensity of efforts to ringfence the entire crypto space and isolate it from the traditional banking system has ratcheted up significantly. Specifically, the Biden administration is now executing what appears to be a coordinated plan that spans multiple agencies to discourage banks from dealing with crypto firms. It applies to both traditional banks that would serve crypto clients, and crypto-first firms aiming to get bank charters. It includes the administration itself, influential members of Congress, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Department of Justice.
This attack on a private-sector industry by these departments, agencies, and commissions of the federal government’s Executive Branch is a continuation of President Obama’s Operation Choke Point, an ideologically concocted scheme that targeted specific industries operating legally – not through the creation of legislation, but by weaponizing the banking industry to apply pressure via the hostage-taking of a company’s finances and financial abilities.
The Obama administration targeted the gun industry, payday lenders, online gambling companies, and adult entertainment, using the alphabet agencies to pressure member banks to “redline” the companies, determining them as “too risky to do business with.”
Although the practice was eliminated under President Trump, the member banks remain gunshy and are today easy to “redline” whole projects and industries. A number of banks walked away from financing the private sector in the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2017 because of a perceived vulnerability to the eco-zealot sphere. In 2018, Bank of America and CitiGroup de-platformed firearms manufacturers and even started reporting the names of firearms purchasers to the federal government. And in 2019, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (S-NY), sought to use banking pressure to marginalize private prisons.
With the arrival of the Biden administration, Operation Choke Point (or Operation Choke Point 2.0) was resurrected and its big game hunt is centered on the cryptocurrency sphere, a private industry sector of our financial world that gives people a way to safeguard themselves from the spendthrift practices of the federal government and the nefarious gerrymandering of the financial markets by the greed-merchants of Wall Street, the currency manipulators of the Federal Reserve and the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum.
But, again, where is the legal authority for the federal government to torture into submission and/or obscurity an entire wealth-generating industry?
Again from ZeroHedge.com:
…it’s now evident that the Obama administration and its successor in Biden’s regime are comfortable circumventing the First Amendment by engaging nominally private companies to do their dirty work. Anyone paying remote attention would have noticed the oddly close revolving door between monopolistic big tech firms and Obama/ Biden security state officials. And ever since Elon Musk leaked the Twitter Files, it’s nakedly clear that the US government and its security apparatus used proxies at Twitter for overt censorship and narrative control. Twitter is “just a private company,” though, right?
In 2017, Trump and Republican lawmakers like Rep. Luetkemeyer were able to put a stop to Choke Point for a time, but it didn’t last. One of the first moves from Biden’s OCC was to undo Brian Brook’s Fair Access rule that prohibited political discrimination in banking. Biden’s deputies picked up where Obama’s regulators had left off. And now, after the time it took to digest Biden’s Executive Orders, regulators are tightening the screw.
Are We To Tolerate Fascist Bureaucracy
The talking heads and sycophants of the ideological Left (read: useful idiots) appear to be quite alright with the federal government colluding with the private sector to coerce the marketplace; to pick private sector winners and losers even as their actions chip away at the basic elements of our Republic: freedom, liberty, and the free market.
Where our Republic was constituted on the premise of a representative government that served the people – where the people reigned over the government, today, that system has been upended.
With Wilson’s ideological, fascistic poison pulsing through our nation’s veins, we have jettisoned our republican system of government for the false promise of centralized government that employs the tentacles of oligarchy. We have allowed our federal government to adorn itself in the cloth of fascism, and they are wearing that cloth proudly.
There are several things that will aid in correcting our nation’s course back to the US Constitution, including the use of nullification and the crafting of a controllable federal tax remittance scheme at the state level, but one thing that must be included in any remedy is this. Congress must begin crafting better and more all-inclusive legislation leaving nothing to interpret for the fascist bureaucracy of The Swamp. We need to make Executive Branch regulatory power a thing of the past if we want to even begin to return to representative government.
The insatiable lust for power and riches possessed by the swamp creature that is the whole of the US federal government must be excommunicated from our American elected class…and that starts with the next election.
