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Police powers are obviously being used... how do you think laws and regulations are enforced? If a business violates the OSHA rules and then doesn't pay the pe
by bpodgursky 5y ago
Police powers are obviously being used... how do you think laws and regulations are enforced?
If a business violates the OSHA rules and then doesn't pay the penalties, they are shut down and, if the business continues operating in violation of the regulators, arrested. That's the obvious and implicit statement. The police do that!
The police aren't out raiding houses but the police powers are obviously being used; it's the state's monopoly on violence! It's the government's biggest lever!
- orf 5y agoSo all federal laws are invalid?
- bpodgursky 5y agoNo? All federal laws rely on the police to enforce them. I'm a realist, not an anarchist. Just don't pretend that there isn't a clear threat of violence, when you are making laws that tell people what to do or take their money.
- orf 5y agook so the point about federal laws being invalid because they are enforced by the police is invalid?
- bpodgursky 5y agoAre you intentionally misreading what I wrote? I never said anything about federal laws being invalid. I said they are enforced by police action. Which is obviously true.