Federal guarantees for jobs and housing, the elimination of private health insurance, a massive Green New Deal expansion, and new taxes on unrealized wealth are among dozens of current congressional proposals being called out by a national free-market group led by former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares.Miyares, whose family fled Fidel Castro's communist regime, described the proposed laws seen on Capitol Hill as "straight from Castro’s playbook" in a sit-down interview with Fox News Digital.Miyares recently became the honorary chairman at the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, a conservative trade organization representing American businesses, which just launched a "Socialism Watch" initiative tracking thirty-two bills that have been introduced on Capitol Hill aiming to implement what the group describes as socialist policy goals across healthcare, energy, labor, housing, taxation, and more."The year Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, Cuba had the same GDP as Greece.
The year that he died, too bad the same GDP as Sudan," Miyares told Fox News Digital."Socialism doesn't work.
It impoverishes every country that embraces it."DSA-BACKED CANDIDATES ARE WINNING PRIMARIES AND THEIR VISION FOR AMERICA IS VERY DIFFERENTU.S.Capitol building in Washington D.C., next to a photo of socialist leader from Cuba Fidel Castro (Getty Images)Among the bills highlighted by Miyares and the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is legislation that would ban fracking nationwide beginning in 2029, prohibit greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants and restrict new liquefied natural gas infrastructure and most U.S.
oil and natural gas exports. Others would create government-backed job-guarantee programs offering employment to qualifying applicants, replace private health insurance with a national Medicare for All program, and impose annual taxes on accumulated wealth, even when those gains have not been realized through a sale.The group is also zeroing in on a ...