In addition to organized crime and the drug cartels: Police unions, private prison corporations, alcohol and beer companies, pharmaceutical companies, and prison guard unions are said to be in the top five in terms of lobbying and paying lawmakers to keep marijuana illegal. Hey, this is DEMOCRACY at work. This is the best system ... MORE
Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Michael S. Rozeff: Who Wants Marijuana To Remain Illegal?
In addition to organized crime and the drug cartels: Police unions, private prison corporations, alcohol and beer companies, pharmaceutical companies, and prison guard unions are said to be in the top five in terms of lobbying and paying lawmakers to keep marijuana illegal. Hey, this is DEMOCRACY at work. This is the best system ... MORECiting ObamaCare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit AFL-CIO
by Warner Todd Huston. In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two ... MOREKatrina Trinko: Standing Up To The Unions
Even Dems are opposing outrageous union demands. Even in California, the buck stops occasionally. The final outcome is not yet clear, but even a four-day strike against BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, the rail system that serves San Francisco and the surrounding area) in July and the threat of a longer one haven’t won transit-union workers ... MORE
Fed Workers Paid $155M To Work For Labor Unions
by Alissa Tabirian. Federal employees were paid more than $155 million of taxpayer dollars in 2011 for spending more than 3.4 million hours of "official time" on labor union activities that fell outside their assigned government duties, according to a survey by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). "Voluntary membership in ... MORE
IRS Pays Over 200 Employees To Work Full-Time For Union
by Eliana Johnson. The Internal Revenue Service pays over 200 full-time employees not to
conduct audits or process tax returns but to work for a
federal employees’ union, according to documents
released by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act
request by the advocacy group Americans for Limited Government.
Forty-three ... MORETerence P. Jeffrey: Stockton Was Murdered
It was an inside job. Were a rational person given the assignment to search this planet to find the best place for human beings to live and build wealth, he might well settle on San Joaquin County, Calif. That is where Americans built a city called Stockton — the municipality a federal bankruptcy judge just declared dead. How did Stockton die? ... MOREUnion Greed Drives California To Bankrupcy
by Steven Greenhut. Few non-local people pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold-Rush-era industrial city of 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley at the eastern edge of the California Delta. But bond-holders, taxpayers and government officials throughout the country will be listening to U.S. ... MOREJohn Stossel: Imperial Washington
Where public servants go to become masters. The Senate did something this past weekend it hasn't done in four years: passed a budget. The law requires the Senate to pass a budget, but Congress often ignores its own laws. For most of Barack Obama's presidency, a series of continuing resolutions kept the money — your money ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Blob That Ate Children
Why are they so scared of competition? Shortly after I did my first TV special on education, "Stupid in America," hundreds of union teachers showed up outside my office to yell at me. They were angry because I said union rules were a big reason American kids don't learn. The union is a big reason kids don't like school and learn ... MOREWalter E Williams: Mandated Wages And Discrimination
Let's work through an example. Suppose 100 yards of fence could be built using one of two techniques. You could hire three low-skilled workers for $15 each, or you could hire one high-skilled worker for $40. Either way, you get the same 100 yards of fence built. If you sought maximum profits, which production technique would you employ? ... MORECapitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved. ... MORERichard Berman: Raising Minimum Wage Is Bad Magic Trick
Presto, change-o and workers will be hurt. Apparently America’s employees were better off in 1968 than they are
today. At least, such is the claim of the labor-backed activists and the
AFL-CIO’s
chief economist. By their telling, the minimum wage has lost value — if
it were fairly adjusted since the late 1960s, it would today be set at
$10.58. ... MORECalifornia, Unsaved, Speeds Toward A Wall Of Debt
by Steven Greenhut. A cursory glance at Governor Jerry Brown’s new budget could make you believe that California’s days
of fiscal gloom are over as he champions a balanced budget and
newfound “fiscal restraint.” California had been floating in debt. Then Brown persuaded
voters in November to increase sales and income taxes. ... MOREWilliam Dunkelberg: Why Raising Minimum Wage Kills Jobs
The minimum wage is a major anti-jobs policy. Ten states have announced
an increase in their minimum wage effective January 1, mostly because
their legislation requires an adjustment to the Consumer Price Index
inflation measure. Some political jurisdictions take it further, San Francisco has a minimum over $10 per hour and the state of ... MORE
Heritage Foundation: The 10 Worst Regulations Of 2012
by Diane Katz and James Gattuso. During 2012, virtually every aspect of American life was subjected to
government meddling, ranging from how many calories you consume to how
efficient your dishwasher is. These rules affect us in a
variety of ways. Most increase the cost of living, others hinder job
creation, and many erode our freedom. ... MORESometimes A School Needs An Intervention
by A. Barton Hinkle. For many years, the public schools in Petersburg, Va., turned in
dismal academic performances. State officials did what they could
to galvanize improvement. In 2006, the district and the state
signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at boosting results. A
similar previous agreement had failed to move ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: The Auto Bailout Failure Is Now Complete
Another big-time loser for taxpayers. You may recall that during the presidential election, the Treasury Department refused requests by General Motors to unload the government's stake in the giant automaker. Taxpayers had sunk $50 billion into a union bailout in 2009 and
were now proud owners of 26.5 percent of the struggling ... MORE
Right To Work Laws Are, Indeed, Libertarian
by Shikma Dalmia. Every time Right to Work is in the news, a civil war breaks out
among libertarians about whether it is consistent with
libertarianism or not. On one side are folks like me who think that
right-to-work laws are a modest advance for worker freedom because
they exempt workers from having to pay mandatory union dues as a
condition ... MORE
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