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Yes. Unions should pay taxes like a business. I was a member of a union for years, and there was a lot of wastefulness in how they used our union dues. They also got involved in politics, and issues that we didn't care that much about (like protection for illegals and being anti-Trump). They even tried to make the legal immigrants fearful that Trump was going to deport us. So they might as well pay taxes on their income.
Then so should churches, credit unions, veterans service organizations, HOA's, schools and fraternal societies
How clearly they have their working class base brainwashed to do their bidding. I don't know that any large group of people has ever so consistently, and clearly to their own detriment, voted against their own self-interest. It's like they feel guilty that they're not rich and their rich betters are doing the proper thing in punishing them.
no kidding, they're like little wind up dolls they read "Daily Caller" or watch Fox News and regurgitate every bit of trash they spew, they don't seem to consider or care how badly these policies will harm them personally
Making the point that some Labor organizations pay taxes.
So what? Again, what point are you trying to make here? If you are claiming that labor unions should pay taxes,then tell us why and explain why you would exempt other organizations like those that serve veterans? You must have some rationale for this, or is it just the latest right wing talking point?
Several reports. WPRI, which is now the Badger Institute, really blew the lid off this a few years ago. WI taxpayers were overcharged $100 million/year for public school teachers' health insurance provided by the insurance company owned by the union. That was a big factor in Gov Walker breaking WI public employee unions.
Remember all the protests in Madison? You know, the ones in which the protesting teachers, etc., caused millions of dollars in damage in/to the WI capitol city and capital building? That's what that was all about.
Several reports. WPRI, which is now the Badger Institute, really blew the lid off this a few years ago. WI taxpayers were overcharged $100 million/year for public school teachers' health insurance provided by the insurance company owned by the union. That was a big factor in Gov Walker breaking WI public employee unions.
Remember all the protests in Madison? You know, the ones in which the protesting teachers, etc., caused millions of dollars in damage in/to the WI capitol city and capital building? That's what that was all about.
To our peril. Unions were largely responsible for the "greatness" of America, the political strength and economic security of the middle class, that some yearn to see return.
You know what, you can take your weekends, and your holidays, and your 8 hour shifts, and your healthcare, and your OSHA safety regulations, and your retirement plan, and you can just walk straight off a cliff, mister.
We don't need that kind of Satanic Ozzy Ozborne Sharon Tate communism here.
It's time to tax the churches, they've been getting away with grift for decades.
This is so true.
And in many states anyone can file a couple of documents and call themselves a church or nonprofit 501(c)(3), so it is particularly obnoxious. I cannot imagine how many people have formed tax exempt organizations and do not pay taxes.
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