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Most people who feel like entire federal agencies are somehow trampling on their freedoms and should be abolished start with the EPA (though conveniently leave out the DoD most of the time).

There's probably a decent joke buried in the fact the first two they always talk about are the EPA and Education.

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Also let’s abolish osha. See how workers feel after they are gone.

it wasn't asked, but the idea is to abolish all hierarchical relations of authority and rule. that includes business owner authority over workers which osha exists to counterbalance.

I'm sure there are some fringe people who believe in that, but the far right idea to abolish the EPA and Department of Education are definitely not by definition coupled with eliminating private business owners' authority over their employees.

That’s obvious

Libcom is the dominant viewpoint among those who advocate the admittedly fringe view of abolishing govt. Commenter was bewildered by the suggestion as though that’s the entirety of thought behind the idea in isolation

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