Another Set Of Reminders - On Wisconsin

To clarify a few points on the debate in Wisconsin.

• Collective Bargaining is not a "right." If it was, federal workers would have the right, they do not.
• Collective Bargaining is not a "right." If it was, then all state employees in the U.S. would have the right, they do not.
• Collective Bargaining is not a "right." Nowhere is it enshrined in the Constitution, it was granted by legislation in Wisconsin, by executive order in some other states.
• State workers are protected from arbitrary firing and have numerous other protections in Wisconsin.
• Collective bargaining, combined with pay check deductions and public employee union contributions to political candidates forms a taxpayer subsidy to the Democratic party. That is unfair. If I don't like Walmart's political views, I can boycott their stores, but I can't stop paying taxes to slow the flow of my money to a party I intensely dislike.
  
• Scott Walker has been criticized for wanting to bust unions. They say that like its a bad thing, it is not.

Cross posted to sdrostra.com.