THIS:
Texas is open 100%.
Texans should have the freedom to go where they want without any limits, restrictions, or requirements.
Today, I signed a law that prohibits any TX business or gov’t entity from requiring vaccine passports or any vaccine information. pic.twitter.com/JQXOe4cHgY
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 7, 2021
THIS is how a REAL Republican State deals with the issue of “vaccine passports.” An unequivocal NO.
And it bears noting that the NO represents a rejection of the libertarian/Kochian pablum that free-market capitalism means that government must let private business dehumanize us and invade our privacy … don’t like showing your proof-of-vaccine at Walmart, then go build your own Walmart … yeah, right.
Capitalism is a means to an end. Not an end in itself. The Texas GOP appears to understand that.
Moreover, woke-corporatism has nothing to do with capitalism. In Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that capitalism is a superior economic system to mercantilism. Capitalism does not require or even support government allowing businesses to coerce us into being woke.
