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Re: Wisconsin Republicans vote to strip public worker collective bargaining rights wi
What you are doing is shifting the goalposts and ignoring the content because you are blinded by an ideology. It has absolutely nothing to do with your work or your compensation but everything to do with forced union membership and forced payment of dues, dues which come from the salary you receive from the taxpayers. Apparently you have no problem being forced by the unions to pay dues out of the teacher's pay?
I see everything that you are doing as clear as day. It's called reverse engineering an argument. I used to do the same thing in 5th grade. You want to say the unions are publically supported and thus can be properly interfered with; you have to make that connection. You've made a leap in logic to do so because you ignore the fact that people have EARNED the money, thus making the money their own, not governments. The government has public schools, which teach all our children. The government needs teachers to work in those schools so that they can teach all our children. The government hires teachers to teach in those schools which teach all our children. The government PAYS the teachers for THEIR WORK in those schools teaching all our children. The money the teachers get is no longer government money, it is now PRIVATE money. It has a new owner, and this is the step you purposefully and dishonestly skip over each and every time so that you can try to claim that the unions are supported via federal funding. Money changed hands, old owners became non-owners, previous non-owners became owners. This is the break down point of your logically flawed argument, in fact it is the actual logical flaw in your argument. At this point, it ceases to be taxpayer dollars and becomes private money held by an individual. An individual who agreed to contractual terms to join a union and thus is now obligated to pay the union. They agreed to those terms, we have right to contract and they exercised that right by agreeing to be in the union. The individual still made the choice. If they didn't want to be in that union, they didn't need to take that job. They made a choice.
Your argument fails on nearly every level possible and in the end is nothing more than anti-union propaganda.
What you are doing is shifting the goalposts and ignoring the content because you are blinded by an ideology. It has absolutely nothing to do with your work or your compensation but everything to do with forced union membership and forced payment of dues, dues which come from the salary you receive from the taxpayers. Apparently you have no problem being forced by the unions to pay dues out of the teacher's pay?