'Castro's playbook': Ex-AG warns dozens of congressional bills are pushing socialist ideas

Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is warning that dozens of bills moving through Congress amount to a socialist policy push, invoking his family's history fleeing Fidel Castro's Cuba. Miyares, now honorary chairman of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, says the free-market group has begun tracking thirty-two such proposals through a new effort it calls Socialism Watch. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Miyares called the measures "straight from Castro’s playbook," arguing that socialism "impoverishes every country that embraces it." He pointed to Cuba's economic decline under Castro, saying the island's GDP matched Greece's the year Castro took power and had fallen to Sudan's level by the time he died.

The tracked bills touch nearly every sector of the economy. Several address energy policy, including a proposal to end fracking nationwide by 2029, restrictions on power-plant emissions, and caps on new liquefied natural gas terminals and U.S. oil and gas exports. Labor and healthcare proposals include a government jobs program and a shift to a single-payer Medicare for All system, while another bill would levy an annual tax on wealth gains that have not yet been realized.

A particular target is the $300 billion "Housing is a Human Right Act," which backers describe as a moral effort to end homelessness through government-funded social housing. Miyares and other critics contend the bill is designed to squeeze private landlords out of the housing market.

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