Not at all the same. The companies aren’t enforcing those laws, it’s following the law with enforcement up to the gov’t. Sending in your employees’ withholding tax isn’t the same as being the IRS. Giving your workers hard hats isn’t the same as being OSHA.
Random raids are most certainly part of my principles. My principles also include protections against random search and seizure and freedom of movement, so internal checkpoints and random raids are right out. As are the ICE that were hanging out with a dog at the rest area the other day walking around the cars. Get a warrant.
One of my other principles is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. E-Verify turns that on its head- the assumption is that you are illegal until proven otherwise.
Working is required to have money for food and housing. Having to first ask permission from the gov’t in order to have the most basic needs to live is indeed totalitarian. We’re not talking about “common sense regulation”- these are basic needs that can’t be met if you don’t have gov’t approval.
