Intellectual Property Too

I'll admit that I didn't readily think of intellectual property when I first heard of the property rights deprivation ruling by the Supremes. But it didn't take long for the DC council to do so. So now patients, trade secrets and other proprietary information that people and companies can be thieved just as easily as real property.

Catania introduced his legislation in February and amended it a month later. At first he wanted to use the city's power of eminent domain to force drug makers to lower their prices. His new version of the bill says that if drugs are found to be excessively priced, the mayor may request a compulsory license that would, in essence, allow the city to take patents from brand-name drug makers and reissue them to generic manufacturers that could produce cheaper drugs for the District.

The focus on the elimination of all property rights is indicative of the Post Christian philosophy that says that there is no ultimate absolute standard of right and wrong. According to this, each person or group is obligated to find their own reality, their own standard of right and wrong. We should not be surprised when Statist advocates use the nebulous concept of "fairness" to expand their own power.