BigGovernment.com reported yesterday on some tax problems recently encountered by the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC).  Landmark Legal Foundation was founded in 1976.  Its current President is Mark Levin.  The article deals with some of what they have uncovered in regard to the spending and tax returns of the WEAC.

The article reports:

“In April, the Landmark Legal Foundation asked federal officials to investigate its claim that WEAC failed to report or pay taxes on $430,000 in contributions to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee between 2000 and 2002 in apparent violation of federal law.

“The Wisconsin Education Association Council has voluntarily made $171,091 in payments to the Internal Revenue Service after a review of past federal tax returns, the state’s largest teachers union said Wednesday.”

The WEA Trust was created by the Wisconsin Education Association Council to provide insurance, and retirement and investment services to Wisconsin public school employees and their families.  The bill proposed by Governor Walker of Wisconsin would require teachers to join the state employees’ health insurance program, rather than have the state pay the WEA Trust to insure the teachers.  If the teachers are forced to join the state’s health insurance program, that will take a major source of funding away from the union.  Obviously some of that funding has not been used for healthcare.

Wisconsin is the site of a battle between a union that has taken money from the taxpayers to pay for healthcare for teachers, then spent some of that money on political contributions to make sure the people that set up the system were elected.  That sounds like something that should be stopped, whether you are a union member or not.