PJ Tatler contributor Hans von Spakovsky has this piece today at the Washington Examiner relating to the leaked Obama executive order to politicize federal contracting first reported at PJM. The executive order would, by edict, overrule a Supreme Court opinion. But it has a more sinister result, according to von Spakovsky:
“What is really going on here is a transparent attempt to introduce political gamesmanship into the government contracting business by the Obama administration. It is a cynical attempt to use the guise of reform to achieve political goals at the cost of the liberty that all Americans have to participate in the political process, and to voice their political opinions, without fear of retribution to themselves and their businesses.”
When they say redistributive, they mean retributive..
They should never have been allowed to take that very first step down this slippery slope. Any federal regulation that has the effect of forcing an individual to reveal who he supports politically (whether by just voting, or by also donating) should have been struck down as unconstitutional.