Laura Ingraham: Biden, Democrats aim to use pandemic to put US on 'Road to Serfdom'

Democrats are using the coronavirus pandemic to "transform the economy so it will no longer be the free market that has created more prosperity and happiness than any other economic system in the world.," Laura Ingraham told viewers Monday.

Of far-left stalwarts like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as well as Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Ingraham said: "None of them know the basis of economics. I wouldn’t hire them as dog-walkers, let alone economic planners, because printing, borrowing, or seizing money from income earners creates neither wealth nor opportunities for others. But with the 'woke' takeover of our college campuses and attacks on all things Western, it is terrifying to think how little many of our college students know." The host then quoted a passage from Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek's seminal work "The Road to Serfdom," which she said should be required reading for all college freshmen: "The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbour and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest functionaire possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or to work." "Central planning is at the core of Biden’s plans, with the stimulus going far beyond cutting checks to individuals, "Ingraham said. "In fact the $1.9 trillion is just a down payment on the road toward European-style socialism, a permanent and much larger welfare state, and an endless supply of low-wage migrant workers.