Posted on 07/06/2021 5:06:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
I'm no lawyer, that's for sure, and so I don't have expertise on the intricacies of the law, but I am angry as a hornet by the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the federal "eviction moratorium."
On Tuesday, the high court in a divided 5-4 opinion will allow the moratorium to continue until August. This moratorium allows people to stay in their apartments and other rental units and not pay the rent they agreed to.
This policy started more than a year ago when the pandemic was in full force. But the policy is unconstitutional -- an affront to basic property rights and the sanctity of contracts. It should have never been allowed and implemented in the first place and certainly has no place in the law now that COVID-19 is over and there are 9.1 million open jobs in the country.
Since when can the government tell a private enterprise that it can't collect its rightful payments from its customers? What's next? Politicians promising to end hunger in America by allowing poor people to go into a grocery store or 7-Eleven and taking whatever food they want without paying? This law puts all the cost of achieving a social objective -- not having people lose the roof over their heads -- during tough times on businesses and individuals. Amazing how humanitarian the political class is with other people's money.
This is also a case where the left's do-gooder edicts defy basic common sense. I am friends with several owners of apartment buildings and rental units. Guess what happened the day after these local, state and federal waivers on paying rent are implemented? Over half the tenants and, in some cases, as many as 90% of the occupants stopped paying their rent.
The latest national estimate is that landlords are losing about $13 billion A MONTH in rental payments. But as one apartment owner tells me: "If I can't collect the rental payments, I can't pay the bank the mortgage on the property. I may have to default on the loan." The latest estimates from CNBC are that more than 11 million Americans have stopped paying their rent on time -- or have just stopped paying entirely.
What is especially galling about this story is that we are creating another new de facto federal entitlement: free rent. Now apartment dwellers are indignant when the landlords try to get their monthly payments. Many hang signs outside their windows that say, "No justice, no rent" -- as if the apartment owners are responsible for the social ills in our country.
The signs used to say, "No jobs, no rent," but no one is sympathetic to that view now that jobs are aplenty from coast to coast.
Speaking of justice: How do edicts like this help in the left's crusade of increasing affordable housing? If apartment and rental housing owners can't legally collect rental payments, they aren't going to build more units. They will build less.
In the court case, the losing plaintiffs argued -- persuasively -- that "Congress never gave the CDC the staggering amount of power it now claims." Who elected the bureaucrats at the CDC? These are the same people who were caught asleep at the switch when the pandemic hit these shores. They were too busy studying gun violence and LGBTQ issues. These kinds of dictates should be rarely imposed, and when they are, they should come from Congress, not from a federal agency that is completely separated from the voters and thus the will of the people.
The government's argument was that the CDC believes the regulations are necessary to "prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases." Never mind that the pandemic is over and that anyone who wants to be protected against COVID-19 has ready access to the vaccines.
This country really is headed down the road of tyranny when the government tells our citizens they don't have to pay their bills.
CDC didn’t issue the mandates....The Governors did....and they seem to have “unrestricted powers”...Cuomo is a perfect example.
Actually it only switches victims. Landlords can lose their roofs too.
That's exactly what's happening daily in big parts of California, like oh, say ... San Francisco. Just ask any grocer, Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, small store owner ...
I know landlords who have been ruined by the covid policies, and two restaurant owners likewise.
Whatever Happened to Property Rights?//
Covid cult coup commies that’s what.
Bankrupt land owners , easiest way to eliminate private property, next step outlaw and confiscate private property,
next step full blown global communism.
Property is like cash, its kind of like feudal times really, it actually does belong to the country. So the country will have a very big problem if, say, 14% of the people (heavily weighted toward families probably) in a state like California are suddenly out of doors.
Maltese-implant SCOTUS’ Roberts has RULED
that your own DNA is not your own, once you
have been INJECTED with any DNA operating system.
It is owned by the INJECTORS, BigPharma, and
a cut to Malta and the Vatican.
Americans have NO MORE rights with the Pedophiles,
guillotine controllers, and CCP-implants running 1600
through their ELECTION FRAUD and the RINO/MSM collusion.
Well does anyone really own property? Don't we actually rent our property from the state through payment of real estate taxes?
Nobody’s deed will last beyond the country being a going concern, so it is from the country itself that property rights derive.
The “Moratorium” was illegal from the start. The government does not have the right to invalidate valid contracts. No government has the right to coerce property owners to provide a place to live to renters who don’t pay. That decree from Fascist Central was invalid from the moment it was announced.
The reason why it was implemented so fast without challenge is that statists don’t want you to own anything. They are implementing the first tenet of the communist manifesto without admitting it.
In effect, you don’t own your property. You pay the taxes, the mortgage, the upkeep, the utilities, but it’s not yours.
The goal is complete ownership of property by government. They can’t seize it all just yet, so it’s a little at a time.
I’m glad you noticed what’s happening.
The only choice is between being in a country where there are property rights and being in a country where there are no property rights. These rights will ALWAYS be conditional, they will never be absolute since none of us can hold the land against any organization of people who want to take it from us in the absence of another organization (our country) being willing to stand up for us. We are never sovereign, we are always going to be aligned with someone.
Your hit and run post is poorly written..
Having said that... In an off center kind of way it makes sense...
In order for me to buy in, I would like to know what ruling it is you speak of..
“Well does anyone really own property? Don’t we actually rent our property from the state through payment of real estate taxes?”
Then logically, any working person is a slave because one’s labor is taxed. But it is a sliding scale of slavery - 100% tax is full slave, 15% tax is 15% slave. Those with 100% freedom are the gib-me-dats.
Same with real estate then. If cannot transfer the rights to real estate and be compensated for its market value, then yes, one doesn’t own it. Everything else is a matter of degrees - i.e. the higher the taxes on the property relative to its market value, the “less of it one owns.” .
If you own your properties free and clear, the moratorium does not apply to those properties. Federally insured debt has plenty of strings.
(imho) the government controls all property because the government has many more rights than the supposed property owners. government simply sent all Citizens a reminder (imho)
To answer the title question : Marxism.
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