In a video of a campaign stop embedded in the tweet, the perpetually earnest Texan elaborated on this new right.
In 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt suggested a "Second Bill of Rights" that would put the federal government in the position of affirmatively guaranteeing "Positive" outcomes-"The right of every family to a decent home," freedom from "Unfair competition and domination by monopolies," and so on.
Even in the face of renewed trillion-dollar budget deficits and a sitting president who cheerfully abuses power, Democrats are all in on expanding federal and executive authority, locating positive rights under every rock.
Sen. Bernie Sanders in September called for national rent control, plus $2.5 trillion in new federal housing-construction money, paid for by a wealth tax on the top 0.1 percent.
On the narrower issue of housing, Democratic presidential candidates are proposing the same types of policies-rent control, subsidies, tax hikes, limitations of property rights-that are already on the books in places where housing is expensive and commutes are long, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.
Unlike the Sunbelt metro areas where housing is cheap, these places also happen to be run by Democrats.
Faced with a president they find repulsive to the core and with unfunded future payment obligations in the many trillions, Democrats think now is the time to really unleash Washington.
https://reason.com/2019/11/17/democrats-are-conjuring-up-new-rights/
In 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt suggested a "Second Bill of Rights" that would put the federal government in the position of affirmatively guaranteeing "Positive" outcomes-"The right of every family to a decent home," freedom from "Unfair competition and domination by monopolies," and so on.
Even in the face of renewed trillion-dollar budget deficits and a sitting president who cheerfully abuses power, Democrats are all in on expanding federal and executive authority, locating positive rights under every rock.
Sen. Bernie Sanders in September called for national rent control, plus $2.5 trillion in new federal housing-construction money, paid for by a wealth tax on the top 0.1 percent.
On the narrower issue of housing, Democratic presidential candidates are proposing the same types of policies-rent control, subsidies, tax hikes, limitations of property rights-that are already on the books in places where housing is expensive and commutes are long, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.
Unlike the Sunbelt metro areas where housing is cheap, these places also happen to be run by Democrats.
Faced with a president they find repulsive to the core and with unfunded future payment obligations in the many trillions, Democrats think now is the time to really unleash Washington.
https://reason.com/2019/11/17/democrats-are-conjuring-up-new-rights/
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