Thursday, February 9, 2023

Will The Law Win?

Law, at least as enshrined in the Constitution, is under serious attack by the current administration. The GAO reports that three Biden administration officials retain office illegally. Everything done in those administrations while headed by an illegal official will be at risk for legal challenge. Looks like the law doesn't apply to our top law enforcement officer. And the law is going to lose. 

Not happy with waiting for the Supreme Court decision on school loan bailouts (he will lose), the administration now plans to up the income level for shifting loan payments from the borrower to, well, everyone else. This is bad for everyone but colleges and universities who can continue bloat with other peoples' money. It will also encourage those who probably shouldn't go in the first place to give it a try. And it definitely encourages fuzzy degrees (think: sociology and gender studies) over more practical studies (think: engineering) as the sociology major may pay ten percent of her debt while the engineer will pay all of hers. This is clearly a case of executive over-reach. It is the legislature's job to make these changes, but who's going to stop him?

To make things worse, for many who will pick up the tab for these bailouts, Biden intends to unleash his bulked-up army of IRS agents to squeeze every last penny out of folks who work for tips. That's right, buy votes from folks who spent six years at a college party and pay for it by squeezing blood from the hardest working amongst us. Here, he may actually be on solid legal footing. It's just plain wrong.