Don’t laugh off Bernie Sanders’ communist AI heist – Latest News
Far-left politicians need to annihilate property rights — and a giant share of younger voters are shopping for into it.
That’s a pink flag: Our college systems have turn into socialist indoctrination factories.
This week Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a leftist agenda-setter, known as on the federal authorities to confiscate half the worth of the nation’s largest artificial intelligence firms.
He’s focusing on OpenAI, Anthropic (creator of Claude) and xAI, for starters.
Making his announcement on Facebook and in a New York Times opinion essay, Sanders mentioned he’ll introduce laws to slap these firms with a 50% “ownership tax” — actually grabbing company stock with out paying something for it, in stunning defiance of the US Constitution.
That’s expropriating non-public property for presidency use, an thought straight out of Vladimir Lenin’s or Fidel Castro’s playbook.
His flimsy justification: “Since AI is built on the collective knowledge of humanity, the wealth it generates must benefit humanity.”
Sorry, senator — all innovations and breakthroughs are constructed on the data that’s come earlier than.
The similar argument may rationalize demanding half the stock of a biotech company that produces a most cancers treatment, or a musical composer who writes a hit.
Who would invest or invent if the federal government may swoop in and take half?
Sanders’ invoice goes nowhere whereas there’s a Republican majority in Congress — however ignore it at your peril.
It’s a warning: Outright confiscation is the left’s newest scheme to treatment inequality and pay for ever-expanding public advantages.
Sanders lifted the thought from two law professors, Jeremy Bearer-Friend of the George Washington University School of Law and Sarah Polcz of the University of California at Davis School of Law.
Lawyers, are you able to consider it?
You’d suppose they’d recall that the US Constitution’s “takings clause” — Bill of Rights, Amendment Five — bars the federal government from grabbing property with out “just compensation.”
Ivory-tower universities are inclined to reward school for his or her imaginative proposals, and Polcz and Bearer-Friend have admitted their unconstitutional plan could be challenged in federal courtroom.
Sanders couldn’t care much less.
And New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani agrees: He warned us at his inauguration that he’d introduce New Yorkers to the “warmth of collectivism.”
His new Block by Block housing plan proposes seizing residence buildings from their homeowners to present them to what he calls “responsible stewards,” together with tenants — one other outrageous assault on property rights.
Pay consideration to how fast Democratic Socialist candidates spouting collectivism are making headway.
This week’s primaries produced outright wins or runoff developments for more than a dozen Democratic Socialists-backed candidates in 5 states.
Who likes these concepts? Young voters.
Members of Generation Z specifically have a rose-colored view of socialism, communism and collectivism.
According to a latest Heartland Institute/Rasmussen Reports ballot, almost 60% of seemingly voters age 18 to 24 need a Democratic Socialist within the White House in 2028.
Mandani captured 78% of under-30 voters in November, per an ABC News exit ballot.
The Democratic Socialists of America, as soon as the haven of radical retirees reliving their Sixties glory days, is now powered by the younger: DSA noticed its membership’s average age plunge from 68 to 33 within the final decade.
Blame the leftist indoctrination in Ok-12 faculties and in universities for this socialist and communist enthusiasm.
A staggering 62% of voters age 18 to 29 maintain a favorable view of socialism, and 34% favor communism.
That’s what they’re being taught.
CoolKid Facts, a well-liked schooling web site aimed primarily at elementary-age college students, teaches children that communists consider “the state should provide every citizen with their basic needs . . . and no one is above anyone else.”
Sounds utopian.
No point out of the brutalities, hunger and mass murders dedicated within the title of communism by Lenin or Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot, Castro or Che Guevara.
In New York state social research courses, communism and socialism are offered as two financial systems that make issues more equal and truthful — again with out discussing the atrocities that go hand in hand with property confiscation.
Some states are properly pushing back.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law final yr requiring his state’s public faculties to show “the brutal realities of life under communism.”
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Texas has handed a related law.
That’s one method to counter heavy-handed lecturers’ union indoctrination.
While they’re at it, these states also needs to educate college students in regards to the Takings Clause, and clarify to them why property rights are the engine of financial growth.
Confiscating capital is the quickest method to kill an economic system, as historical past has confirmed again and again.
Sanders’ AI-theft scheme is just the start.
The best protection — the one protection — is an educated citizens.
Considering the misguided attitudes of many Gen Z voters, there’s no time to waste.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
