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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the largest seizure of private property in human history.

Warren’s proposal is dishonestly called the “Accountable Capitalism Act.” Accountable to whom? you might ask. That’s a reasonable question. The answer is — as it always is — accountable to politicians, who desire to put the assets and productivity of private businesses under political discipline for their own selfish ends. It is remarkable that people who are most keenly attuned to the self-interest of CEOs and shareholders and the ways in which that self-interest influences their decisions apparently believe that members of the House, senators, presidents, regulators, Cabinet secretaries, and agency chiefs somehow are liberated from self-interest when they take office through some kind of miracle of transcendence.

Under Senator Warren’s proposal, no business with more than $1 billion in revenue would be permitted to legally operate without permission from the federal government. The federal government would then dictate to these businesses the composition of their boards, the details of internal corporate governance, compensation practices, personnel policies, and much more. Naturally, their political activities would be restricted, too. Senator Warren’s proposal entails the wholesale expropriation of private enterprise in the United States, and nothing less. It is unconstitutional, unethical, immoral, irresponsible, and — not to put too fine a point on it — utterly bonkers.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/elizabeth-warren-plan-nationalize-everything-woos-hard-left/?fbclid=IwAR3i-fBWXDDBRqFkLfDuvnp7aWY9VzdIxy16ZLVjOxsTqtOVYuNtx7a_Aiw

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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2020, 05:43:59 pm »
Months ago, I heard something like "Wall Street was virulently against Warren" and it's because of things like this, socialism.

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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2020, 05:46:04 pm »
Months ago, I heard something like "Wall Street was virulently against Warren" and it's because of things like this, socialism.

Government Confiscation of every business over $1B?  Socialism hell....   She's jumped straight onto the communism wagon
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2020, 01:56:15 am »
Warren’s proposal is dishonestly called the “Accountable Capitalism Act.”

Hmmmm.....
Is that subtitled the "Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act"...?
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2020, 10:50:06 am »
Months ago, I heard something like "Wall Street was virulently against Warren" and it's because of things like this, socialism.
Actually, strict government control of privately owned industry is more of a Fascist concept.

FWIW, a totalitarian is a totalitarian is a totalitarian in my book, whatever label you hang on it.
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2020, 11:41:54 am »
Actually, strict government control of privately owned industry is more of a Fascist concept.

FWIW, a totalitarian is a totalitarian is a totalitarian in my book, whatever label you hang on it.

Fascism is nothing more than a more efficient form of Communism. People are ALLOWED to live mostly free as long as they are making money for the state or are productive in industries favored by the state. The instant the state stops receiving their cut,or they think the cut is too small,the business "owner" goes to prison and is  replaced by someone who will that has personal or familial contacts with the party leadership.
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2020, 02:41:03 pm »
Months ago, I heard something like "Wall Street was virulently against Warren" and it's because of things like this, socialism.
So much of "Wall Street" is comprised of  lefties, though, e.g., Goldman Sachs, et al. I wonder how they can maintain that intellectual inconsistency.
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2020, 03:08:44 pm »
That is the stuff of dictators - total control.
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2020, 03:47:49 pm »
So much of "Wall Street" is comprised of  lefties, though, e.g., Goldman Sachs, et al. I wonder how they can maintain that intellectual inconsistency.

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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2020, 08:43:25 pm »
That is the stuff of dictators - total control.

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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2020, 08:49:08 pm »
Tyranny and many say the global warming fad is just to control our lives too. Put them together?

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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2020, 06:23:00 am »
Awwww, gee guys. It worked so well in Venezuela (stock up on toilet paper now!)--and everything else!
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2020, 04:23:27 pm »
It should be illegal to mention the words "Elizabeth Warren" and "plan" in the same sentence. I have never seen anyone that scatter-brained walking around free without a keeper watching over them,
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2020, 04:27:16 pm »
It should be illegal to mention the words "Elizabeth Warren" and "plan" in the same sentence. I have never seen anyone that scatter-brained walking around free without a keeper watching over them,

Mark my words Pete.  Once the first Wealth Confiscation POTUS implements said "plans", we are 18-24 months away from "Pitchforks in DC"
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2020, 04:29:43 pm »
Mark my words Pete.  Once the first Wealth Confiscation POTUS implements said "plans", we are 18-24 months away from "Pitchforks in DC"

Only many of those "pitchforks" will have 30-round magazines.
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Re: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2020, 06:43:10 pm »
Mark my words Pete.  Once the first Wealth Confiscation POTUS implements said "plans", we are 18-24 months away from "Pitchforks in DC"

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I don't think it will take more than 2 months for that to happen. People who are used to having jobs,money coming in,and house payments are not going to be amused when they wake up one morning and discover they have none of them any longer.
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