Per Capita Public Debt $3427 Higher in Forced-Unionism States Than in Right to Work States

(Before It's News)

Twenty-six years ago next month, as state politicians across the nation were raising taxes and curtailing essential services to patch over large and widening budget gaps, a prescient cover story in Forbes magazine identified special legal privileges granted to union officials as a key factor behind manifold fiscal woes. The article, “Collision Course,” was written by Forbes Executive Editor James Cook. It identified union bosses wielding monopoly control over employees as the “principal culprit behind swollen public payrolls and deteriorating public services.” [...]

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