Vaccine Passports & Private Property Rights

What’s happening? The Goldwater Institute and Reason say Texas SB 968 (2021 | TX) is unconstitutional violation of property rights.  The constitution has long standing standards for businesses to protect their customers as they choose. The bill seeks to prevent businesses from requiring proofs of vaccination.

Why is this important?“”The longstanding legal tradition has always been that businesses owe an obligation to protect their customers’ safety, at least to some basic extent, and this law comes along and says, not only are they not free to make that choice, but they’re prohibited from doing so.””

How will this be important? The article has a laundry list of Texas policies that conform to personal beliefs to protect business but protecting business outside personal beliefs doesn’t get supported. My takeaway —there is no consistency in property rights in Texas.

Reason | In a Rush To Ban Vaccine Passports, Texas Is Violating Private Property Rights