In 2012, then President Barack Obama infuriated many Americans when he told business owners “you didn’t build that” and suggested that the government has a claim on their stuff. Yet this comment looks like only a mild affront to property rights next to what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just did.
Under the direction of the Trump administration, the CDC instituted a unilateral order halting many evictions. It essentially nationalizes millions of private rental properties and strips landowners of their basic rights.
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