Posts Tagged ‘taxes’
Illinois Teacher Association Lead Legislators by the Nose
Illinois Education Association union officials know what they are doing when they persuaded the legislature to double the bump retiring teachers receive just before they ride off into the sunset. When legislators decreased the cap on retiring teachers salaries (this cap or bump, allows teachers larger salaries a few years before they retire so their…
Read More‘Economizing in Connecticut’s School System Is Actually Illegal’
Fewer and fewer of our nation’s children live and attend school in forced-unionism states. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, as recently as 2000, roughly 50% of K-12 school-aged children (5-17 years old) lived in one of the 22 states that, as of today, still haven’t enacted Right to Work laws. This year, the share…
Read More‘What Business Owner Wants to Move There and, by Default, Own a Piece of That?’
Early this month, freelance journalist Stephen Beale highlighted efforts by Ken Block, a software engineer and 2014 Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate, and former Hasbro CEO and Chairman Alan Hassenfeld to focus public attention on out-of-control government spending in Providence, their state’s capital city. (See the link below to read the whole thing.) Reasonable people may…
Read MoreMost-Indebted States Favor Forced Dues
A recent report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adds to the evidence that government union officials endowed with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges routinely wield them to jack up governments’ long-term spending commitments. As a consequence of Big Labor’s compulsory dues-financed lobbying successes, states that give more special privileges to public-sector union officials routinely…
Read MoreFact Sheet: More Debt, Higher Taxes
Eight of the Nine States With the Highest Government Debt-to-Income Ratios Lack Right to Work Protections (Click to download fact sheet) By Stan Greer As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades. As recently as 1981, the first year…
Read MoreGreater Union Density = Bigger Government
The huge cost of public unions  In an op-ed published a few days ago in the New York Daily News, California Polytechnic State University economics professor Michael Marlow reports on research he recently completed that found “a solid empirical relationship between public sector unions’ concentration and the size and cost of government . . .…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – April 20, 2012
Mark Mix: Union muscling in to O.C. hospital Orange County Register, April 12, 2012 Unknown figures entering your workplace through the back door without identification. Harassing late night phone calls. Strangers blocking your driveway and studying your exact movements. These are not just the tactics of common criminals and thugs; they are also the tactics…
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