President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in the 1930s that allowing government workers to unionize would be a bad idea. That it would institutionalize their influence over elections and public policy.  That FDR was right is shown by the fact that four of the six biggest campaign contributors to national campaigns are now public sector unions. Public sector unions have grown to the point where their power is applied in two ways. First, they tax Americans so they can redistribute tax revenue -- and borrow even more when revenue isn’t enough. And they also have a second area where they exercise this power: they force you to pay their high salaries and pensions, not just through state taxes but through state laws that protect and enforce their contracts even if these provisions violate the Thirteenth Amendment. Some of these public servants now have retirement plans equaling those of the wealthiest corporate executives.  But unlike executives they don’t have to...(Read Full Article)