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And what about the rights of the public to not have the government take so much of their income in taxes? The response attributed to unions in one article was that the state needed to increase taxes. That's idiotic.
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Except that the tax cut wasn't for the "public," but for a specific group of business. Just like the issues go beyond just cutting the current amount of benefits, but about completely eliminating any form of collective bargaining for
the unions that didn't endorse this specific government.
No amount of hand waving will eliminate that. This sort of oversimplification of the good public interest versus the bad teacher is so stupid and misleading I can't keep repeating myself over and over again. But here it goes:
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Let's stop trying to dress this bullshit up as some sort of libertarian small government deal. This government passed very targeted tax cuts and in order to pay for them they are not only changing benefits and all that, but also reducing workers rights. No matter what your view of unions is, there is no other way to describe this as something other than taking away the rights of some people. Oh, but the unions that endorsed Walker are exempt of all of this.
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But hey, how about we pass a tax cut for union employees, and to pay for that we take away from a core constituency of the republican party? After all, that would be essentially the same, except we'd be flipping the winners and losers based on their support last election.