The transfer of property rights from the private to the public sector affects every segment of our society. Doctors can no longer set their own fees in many cases. Medicaid and Medicare have taken care of that. Employers often cannot set their own wage scale or choose whom they hire. The establishing of minimum, and in some cases maximum, wage rates has been usurped by government.
Affirmative action determine the quality and status of the labor force.
We as Americans have largely forgotten those basic principles. We have, for three generations or more, sold our heritage of individual liberty for the bowl of pottage offered through government programs made possible by money borrowed against the assets we as a people once owned. We have stood silently by for years as the property of ranchers, farmers, miners, and loggers was confiscated by various acts of nationalization. We stood silently as doctors and other professionals were regulated into servants of state policy. While home owners had their property confiscated by various acts of nationalization.