Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights. A large share of young voters are buying into it – a red flag that our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories.

On Monday, one of the far Left's agenda setters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, called on the federal government to confiscate half the value of each 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 piece, Sanders said he'll introduce a bill in Congress to slap these companies with a 50 percent ownership tax – literally grabbing company stock without paying anything for it – in shocking defiance of the U.S. Constitution.

It's straight out of the playbook of Lenin, Castro, or another communist dictator – expropriating private property for government use.

Here's Sanders' flimsy argument: "Since A.I. 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 we already have. That same argument could be used to demand 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........

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