Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Feds Attack American Businesses in “Operation Choke Point”

Feds Attack American Businesses in “Operation Choke Point” | Gingrich Productions: "In an administration that has pioneered the use of regulatory power to bully businesses into doing “voluntarily” what the bureaucrats can’t require by law, a secretive federal program that has become public in the last few months stands out as an especially disturbing abuse of power.
The program’s name, “Operation Choke Point,” is a pretty strong indication of trouble–an eerie way for bureaucrats to describe their conduct toward private citizens.
It’s a reference to the banking system as the “choke point” of businesses, a critical piece of the economic infrastructure which government can co-opt to strangle legal activities it doesn’t favor. In fact, I first learned about the program through my work as an advisor to the U.S. Consumer Coalition, which is fighting attacks like these on legal American businesses.
The revelation is alarming in part because it suggests federal officials have realized that they can leverage their strong regulatory authority over one industry, financial services, to exert broad control over many others.
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