On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > I have nothing against charities. I do however have a thing against being > told I have to donate to charity. Kind of inches in to that freedom thing > we have come to love here in America. > A rand solution is not equitable as you are still forcing someone to take > some of their income and give it away solely because someone else wants to > do the same thing. Imagine how you would feel if your employer told you that > you had to donate money to charity and that they were going to just take it > form your paycheck regardless. You would go nuts. But if its a union, you > are ok with it. That is asinine.
We do that all the time. It is called taxation through a representative government. As I mentioned previously, there have been several decades where money has been taken from my paycheck and distributed to organizations and causes with which I disagree. Things like Abstinence-only sex education for instance. Or government support of faith-based charities. In the case of a workplace union, they are a representative body. You can vote them in and out. You can change the officers. I'm still not 100% convinced that EFCA is the best idea out there. Union membership is dropping. Part of that, I think, is because unions aren't as important as they once were. I also know that quite a bit of it is because union busting is a hell of a lot easier and legal these days. I think that there is a balance to be struck and I don't know if EFCA is the right balance or not. I still don't get your argument against unions th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293054 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
