Commentary Joe Biden’s renewed eviction moratorium will hurt not only landlords, but the tenants he seeks to help. The Epoch Times has published some excellent articles on how Biden’s action slams small landlords and is a sop to the far left. I want to emphasize something else: property rights. It’s even more important than the related “free market.” Because if you can’t own something as property—a car, a house, an apartment complex, a factory—you can’t sell it in a market. An extreme example occurred in Poland from 1939-45, as the Nazi and Soviet armies murdered and raped residents, looted wealth, and committed destruction and genocide. The Soviets believed all property belonged to the communist state. The Nazis believed only “Aryans” had property rights; but in 1944, the German property “owners,” too, were driven out of Poland, which was incorporated into Stalin’s empire. Let’s first enumerate why, despite the recent trespassing, …
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