Dont laugh off Bernie Sanders communist AI-heist attempt young voters are falling for it

Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights — and a large share of young voters are buying into it.That’s a red flag: Our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories.This week Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a leftist agenda-setter, called on the federal government to confiscate half the value of the nation’s largest artificial intelligence companies.He’s targeting OpenAI, Anthropic (creator of Claude) and xAI, for starters.Making his announcement on Facebook and in a New York Times opinion essay, Sanders said he’ll introduce legislation to slap these companies with a 50% “ownership tax” — literally grabbing company stock without paying anything for it, in shocking defiance of the US Constitution.That’s expropriating private property for government use, an idea 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 inventions and breakthroughs are built on the knowledge that’s come before. The same argument could rationalize demanding half the stock of a biotech company that produces a cancer cure, or a musical composer who writes a hit.Who would invest or invent if the government could swoop in and take half?Sanders’ bill is going nowhere while there’s a Republican majority in Congress — but ignore it at your peril.It’s a warning: Outright confiscation is the left’s latest scheme to remedy inequality and pay for ever-expanding public benefits. Sanders lifted the idea 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, can you believe it?You’d think they’d recall that the US Constitution’s “takings clause” — Bill of Rights, Amendment Five — bars the government from grabbing property without “...