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Contra Ezra Klein, Unions Spend Plenty on Politics Heritage.org, May 13 2013 The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein recently lamented that America has “a deeply unbalanced political system.” He highlighted a chart showing that business owners and employees donate billions to politicians, while unions give only a few tens of millions. True enough, but this [...]
While pundits believe Washington state will not pass it, a Right to Work bill has been introduced in the State. Labor bosses, leading legislators around by the nose, fiddle while the Washington’s aerospace industry crashes because they will not pass a Right to Work law, and Boeing is making massive investment in factories in South [...]
A heartwarming story of courage as highschoolers wrest their band, and volunteer teacher from the jaws of the teacher union doomsday machine. Volunteers are the last thing unions want to see in any field. Volunteers take away an opportunity for union officials, not only to milk the taxpayer, but to add a new forced-dues payor to [...]
James Sherk refutes Ezra Klein’s assertion that America has a “. . . deeply unbalanced political system . . .” by highlighting Big Labor’s ability to donate huge “in-kind” contributions and maintaining total control over politicians. Read more at The Corner: The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein recently lamented that America has “a deeply unbalanced political [...]
State Rep. Ron Maag says employees earn more money in ‘right-to . Two years ago this February, the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which acknowledges it gets a very substantial share of its funding from forced dues-fueled union treasuries, issued a report comparing employee compensation in Right to Work and compulsory-unionism states. Frequently, data cited [...]
Teamster Freedom of Association Hustle Early this week, the National Institute for Labor Relations Research had the honor of publishing “The Teamster Freedom of Association Hustle,” a new scholarly paper by noted classical-liberal economist Charles Baird. (See the link above.) As Baird explains in his paper, to understand properly what freedom of association (FOA) is [...]
John Stossel talks about why people are moving from forced-dues states to many Right to Work states even as the economy shows signs of strengthening in realclearpolitics. Forty-three million Americans moved from one state to another between 1995 and 2010 — about one-seventh of Americans. It’s good that we can move! Moving provides one of [...]
Kansas outperforms ranking on employment Topeka Capital Journal Online, May 4, 2013 Factors considered in the report are the state’s highest personal income tax rate, highest corporate income tax rate, personal income tax progressivity (meaning how much more higher-income taxpayers pay than low-income ones), property tax burden, sales tax burden, whether the state [...]