{"id":1358,"date":"2009-11-16T06:34:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2009-11-16T06:34:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T06:34:46","slug":"something_to_consider_as_state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Something To Consider As State And Federal Taxes Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/Ban-government-employee-unions-8528271.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;posted an editorial suggesting that we ban government employee unions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/union2.nr0.htm\">Department of Labor<\/a>&nbsp;statistics released in January 2009, about 40 percent of government workers (at the federal, state, and local levels) are represented by unions.&nbsp; The union membership in the private sector is less than 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is the conflict between the union&#8217;s goal of increasing pay and benefits for its workers and the local, state, and federal governments&#8217; need to stop the spiraling tax rates needed to cover the additional cost.<\/p>\n<p>Unions began as a way to prevent companies from taking advantage of their workers.&nbsp; They were needed and accomplished many worthwhile things.&nbsp; Now they have become those corporations, and no one is&nbsp;holding them accountable.&nbsp; Union leaders have incomes and benefits that would make Wall Street blush.&nbsp; Union money is routinely given to political parties without the consent of the union members.&nbsp; The unions have become as corrupt as the corporations they&nbsp;once sought to clean up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article at the Washington Examiner does not mention the unsavory connection between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).&nbsp; This is another reason to examine the relationship between unions and government employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;posted an editorial suggesting that we ban government employee unions.&nbsp; According to Department of Labor&nbsp;statistics released in January 2009, about 40 percent of government workers (at the federal, state, and local levels) are represented by unions.&nbsp; The union &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}