[Source.](https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/michael-van-der-galien/2023/06/22/totalitarian-dutch-government-prepares-to-dictate-home-sales-n1705357) > Hold onto your wooden clogs, folks. Just when you thought bureaucratic overreach was a strictly American pastime, your friends across the pond have decided to toss our hats — or should I say, tulips — into the ring. Meet Minister Hugo de Jonge, a prominent figure from the CDA party in the Netherlands, who’s set his sights on an audacious power play of his own​. > Mr. De Jonge recently introduced a housing bill so outrageous, it makes one wonder whether he got his political education from George Orwell’s 1984. The bill, you see, stipulates that houses priced up to €355,000 (roughly $420,000) should no longer be sold freely. Instead, municipalities could force homeowners to sell their homes only to people with low and middle incomes​. > In essence, De Jonge has decided that homeowners’ individual freedom — the right to decide for themselves to whom they want to sell their homes — should be an artifact of the past. The government, in its infinite wisdom, now aims to dictate market value and access to homes​.