My regional newspaper is right back to fear-mongering in the op-ed page this morning. I think I need to fire up the liberal letter to the editor pen later today and rebut this.

Betsy McCaughey: Dems Will Make Homelessness Worse (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, more at the link)

If Democrats capture the White House in 2020, your own neighborhood is likely to look like the disease-ridden tent slums taking over Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren insists it’s wrong to ban living on the streets and in public parks. Bernie Sanders is calling for a 3% cap on annual rent hikes, the kind of poisonous rent control law that deters new housing construction and worsens homelessness.

As for Joe Biden, expect him to stick by the Obama administration’s policy that living on the street is a civil right. Never mind the harm that street dwellers inflict on the public’s health and safety — or the suffering they endure themselves.

She goes on about Los Angeles and used needles, a potential typhus outbreak, and all of this is caused by excessive laws and regulations.

She doesn’t go as far as saying the homeless should be rounded up in concentration camps, but she says Trump is right about the homeless problem in LA.