Kentucky may rank in the top half of the country overall when it comes to the impact labor unions have
on taxpayers, but it’s mired at the bottom when it comes to policies with the greatest impact on job
creation and economic liberty.
According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s “Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index,” Kentucky offers no
protection for paycheck protection or secret ballots, or from forced unionism – which a right-to-work
law would solve , card check or Project Labor Agreements. (Speaking of right-to-work laws, the Bowling
Green Daily News continues to promote this sound policy for Kentucky.)
The purpose of the index is to: (a) inform taxpayers concerning those areas where government union
lobbyists have maximum sway over policymakers, and (b) to empower citizens to challenge these
unions’ oversized political clout.
An interactive map is included so you can gather intelligence about government employee union activity
in your state.
--Jim Waters
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Big Labor’s making us offers we can refuse
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So-called right to work laws can be more properly called right to work for less laws. Their impact is to suck more money out of the economy just as the jobs-killing Bush tax cuts for the greedy wealthiest few did and are still doing.
Right to work laws violate a fundamental principle that our founders understood about the need for money to circulate.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper 30:
“Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.”
The current recession is a classic case that violates this principle. Less wages is the cause of that great sucking sound as it sucks trillions out of the pockets of working Americans and into the hoarding hands of the wealthiest few.
The Founders would have been right to work kinda guys. Emphasis on the word "RIGHT" as in "free to choose." Unions are fine for people and companies who want them. Forcing anything on anyone is unconstitutional.
Sally:
Congress shall levy and collect taxes. (Article I Section 8 Clause 1) Forcing people to pay taxes is not unconstitutional—it is constitutional.
Right to work for less has a negative impact upon the body politic. Paying workers more has a positive impact on the larger society and is beneficial to profits.
Alexander Hamilton wrote:
"Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions." Federalist Paper 30
St. Paul wrote: If one member suffers, the whole body suffers. Conservative economics favoring the wealthy causes the whole body to suffer.
James Madison had no problem with making the wealthy give up property to raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort. He wrote:
“By the silent operation of laws, which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.” Parties
Thomas Paine wrote:
“By the silent operation of laws, which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.” Agrarian Justice
Daniel Webster wrote:
“"The freest government cannot long endure when the tendency of the law is to create a rapid accumulation of property in the hands of a few, and to render the masses poor and dependent."
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