That is the corollary to the Leftist mantra 'You didn't build that!"
A fundamental principle of Communism is that there is no private property.
1. Only six years into our Republic, the United States Supreme Court
ruled:
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From these passages it is evident; that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of man. Men have a sense of property: Property is necessary to their subsistence, and correspondent to their natural wants and desires; its security was one of the objects, that induced them to unite in society. No man would become a member of a community, in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labour and industry. . . The constitution expressly declares, that the right of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property is natural, inherent, and unalienable. It is a right not ex gratia from the legislature, but ex debito from the constitution. . . Where is the security, where the inviolability of property, if the legislature, by a private act, affecting particular persons ONLY, can take land from one citizen, who acquired it legally, and vest it in another?"
VANHORNE'S LESSEE v. DORRANCE, 2 U.S. 304 (1795)
2. And the definition:
…private property, which specifies to whom the property belongs. Under this form, and individual or individuals have the right to use some good and to exclude others from doing so. If they so wish, they can sell the property, and retain the proceeds from said sale.
3. "The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore,
the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal."
Ayn Rand.
4. "
Portland Wants Private Property Owners To Add ‘Mandatory Rest Spaces’ For The Homeless
...Portland is overrun with people sleeping rough, many of whom suffer from drug addiction and mental illness.
There are humane ways to handle the homelessness problem but, it seems, a Portland city commission would rather change Portland’s building codes in order to force private property owners to accommodate members of Portland’s homeless population, according to local media."
Portland Wants Private Property Owners To Add 'Mandatory Rest Spaces' For The Homeless
5.
" OCCUPY WALL STREET GENIUS SAYS HE’S AGAINST “PRIVATE” PROPERTY, NOT “PERSONAL” PROPERTY
....that’s because he wants to keep his iPad 2, naturally, and not share it with the shiftless vagrants fighting over access to one of the three Porta-Potties recently delivered to the now-evacuated camp site in lower Manhattan.”
Occupy Wall Street Genius Says He's Against "Private" Property, Not "Personal" Property | Human Events
He, and every Democrat voter, misses the point: it suddenly dawns on the dopes that they own nothing.
Somehow, it's fine if government takes what that 'top 1%' legally owned....but not what they own.