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Tuesday, October 25, 2005


Paycheck Protection on the Ballot.
What's paycheck protection, and why is it a good thing?

K. Lloyd Billingsley explains for the Pacific Research Institute.

The what:

This measure would require public-employee unions to secure written permission from members before using members' dues money for political purposes. Television ads charge that the measure takes away the unions' voice. It doesn't.

The why:

Those who are union members will find their voices enhanced, not diminished, by the requirement that union bosses ask permission to use their money for politics. The real lesson of Prop 75 is that nobody should get workers' money before they do, and that has a wider application.

The unexpected:

Indeed, the powerful Michigan Education Association raised more money after paycheck protection passed, all through the voluntary actions of its members.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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