Excellent reminder! Thanks! It's radical socialism disguised as ho-hum banking/housing policy decisions.
People, wake up. See how this gvt is no better than Mussolini or the USSR. When those such nations did things like this (simply forced companies to fund social policies) people here in the US were outraged and identified such efforts by name (fascism, communism). But now they are happening here and no one outside of shareholders is even aware of it. Remember, fascism in Italy featured gvt representatives taking part IN COMPANY BOARD MEETINGS! We know this does happen here (The Fed, although technically not strictly a gvt entity) has admitted (Yellen has) that she often sat in on company board meetings in her previous post. That is not a free country when that happens.
I had almost entirely forgotten that part of why HERA was wrong (redistribution funded by private companies, not by taxes). I was so focused on the fact that IN the text HERA says something unconstitutional (that this law is not subject to judicial review). I've read some attempts at explaining how that can be legitimate. But i tell you, it cannot. If justices had any balls they would defend the constitution instead of, over the decades, allowing such blatantly unconstitutional laws to creep onto the books and not challenge or refute them.