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Unions and the Founders’ Political Science

“Public-Sector” unions continue to be a problem. “Before 2008, few people paid attention to public employee unions,” Daniel DiSalvo writes in this Heritage Foundation study. Among the few were this website and writers like David…

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The Case Against Public Sector Unionism

The following bit of news was posted by HotAir.com: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) criticized public-sector unions on Sunday, saying they should be eliminated entirely. “There’s, I think, a fundamental problem with government becoming…

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Tom Cross and the public sector employee unions work against limited government

Back in August 2007 I noted this sentence from a news report:

“The crowd of more than 10,000 union members at steamy Soldier Field cheered [Barack] Obama.”

At the time I wondered how our Illinois GOP party and legislative leadership were going to counter that union power. Of course we found out in November 2008 that our “leaders” had no plan. Obama and the state level Democrats swept on election day as expected.

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Government workers very well-paid: no kidding

David Denholm, who is the president of the Public Service Research Foundation, recently analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics and reported his findings in the Heartland Institute’s Budget & Tax News….

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