“The business of America is business,” said Calvin Coolidge.  He was president from 1923 to 1929, and can be said to have ushered in the modern era for the United States.  

As the quote makes clear, Coolidge was pro-freedom.  When Communism was in its idealistic infancy in Russia, and that other Marxist style of government, Nazism, still lay in Germany’s future, Coolidge was firmly a proponent of freedom.  

Freedom, as Coolidge knew, includes the freedom to organize a business, to provide goods and services, and to make the money needed to live on and to purchase the goods and materials produced by others in the same way.

Marxism, of course stands in total opposition to that freedom.  Socialism – in any form – and freedom are mutually exclusive; you cannot have one if you have the other – as the EU is slowly learning.  

But some Presidents have opposed American freedoms:  Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden stand out as Presidents who did their best to introduce pieces of a Socialist agenda, limiting the freedom of Americans.

Other Presidents since Calvin Coolidge, such as Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, have taken steps that explicitly lead away from government controls and expanding our freedom.  

That has included lowering taxes, and reducing the size of the Federal government.  

President Trump has been the strongest advocate for freedom ever, possibly even including President Coolidge – albeit Coolidge lived in a time when the Federal government was much smaller to begin with.

Explicitly and without apology, Trump has roused the wrath of America’s would-be Socialists – including most of the current leadership of the Democratic party – with his firing of a great many of the Federal bureaucracy.

That bureaucracy has grown in power over the years to become a de facto fourth branch of government – in addition to Congress, the Presidency, and the Courts – with the power to implement regulations into law without any consideration for the rights or desires of the final authority above all government, the American people.  That makes those bureaucrats dictatorial in their power, answerable to no one.  

President Trump has been the first President to say to that bureaucracy, “That’s enough.  You’re fired.”  By doing so, Trump has reduced the bureaucracy’s power.  

That includes one of the worst of the bureaucracies is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  The EPA is known for its dictatorial seizure of power; e.g., by designating a small stream as a “navigable waterway” and thus under EPA jurisdiction, and thus limiting what a landowner can and cannot do with his property.  

But President Trump’s appointed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is turning the EPA on its head:  in March he stated, "Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen.  We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more."

The EPA under President Trump and Administrator Zeldin is re-evaluating the “dangers” of carbon dioxide and methane gas from the burning of fossil fuels.

That re-evaluation is a welcome breath of fresh air.  Methane production can be regulated; the issue concerning carbon dioxide is more clear cut.  

Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the air are measured in “parts per million” (PPM).  Currently, the CO2 in the atmosphere is in the low 400s, up from the high 300s?  Of course, the climate change fanatics have raised the alarm.

But as the attached chart shows (note the red-marked areas), the increased amount of CO2 has meant more growth by plants.

Consider:  plants breathe CO2.  Plants live on CO2, just as we live by breathing Oxygen (O2).  How much CO2 do plants need?  

When CO2 levels get down to about 200, plants suffocate; they die.  

Contrarily, the higher the amount of CO2, the more healthy plants everywhere will be.

But how about us?  How much CO2 is “too much” for animals and humans?  The answer is in the thousands – about 4,000 PPM.

What is the absolute “worst” level of CO2 that doomsayers predict?  900 PPM – still far, far below 4,000 PPM.  And 900 PPM is very unlikely to be reached by any scenario of human actions that cause CO2 production.

In conclusion, expect President Trump’s EPA, like the rest of the Federal government, to be stepping back from its slow, inexorable dictatorial drifting under Democrat Presidents.  Taxpayers will benefit – both in their rights to their freedom, and in their pocketbooks.