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Comment by Ilya Somin
Law professor and political scholar
Stock is private property, and seizing 50% of the stock value of major firms is a pretty obvious case of confiscation. [...] It does not matter that Sanders proposes to take "only" 50% of the stock, rather than 100%. If the government seizes half your house or half of your business, that's still a taking.
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(2026)
16h ago
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Quote: Ilya Somin — "Stock is private property, and seizing 50% of the stock value of major firms is a pretty obvious case of confiscation. [...] It does not matter that Sanders proposes to take 'only' 50% of the stock, rather than 100%. If the government seizes half your house or half of your business, that's still a taking." Statement #452 (require frontier AI labs to contribute equity to a national citizen-dividend fund), vote=against. Vote alignment is CORRECT — Somin opposes the Sanders expropriation proposal. Year 2026 current. The source_url (reason.com/volokh, dated 2026-06-05, titled "Bernie Sanders' Dangerous and Unconstitutional Plan to Expropriate AI Firms") returned HTTP 403 Forbidden on WebFetch. A web search confirmed this exact Reason/Volokh article by Ilya Somin exists and that he argues seizing 50% of AI firms' stock is an unconstitutional taking/confiscation — strongly corroborating both attribution and substance. Since the source URL itself is blocked from direct fetching, marking ai_unverifiable per protocol.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 14h ago
replying to Ilya Somin