Category — Card Check

The great tax cut to the middle class reached a bit deeper  than the $250,000 cutoff. In fact, it went a wee bit below $100,000.

By the time The One bailed out the fat cat union bosses at Ford and GM, got open voting card checkoff, it stopped just above $13,900, which is good, cause Lil Ewell here kin now get him sum pants.

And a used Ford, iffen we’re lucky! And sum tarpaper for the saved home.

I have a sinking feeling that NYC Mayor Bloomberg and President-elect Obama will be sharing similar tax plans this year:

To illustrate the problem, the mayor said a 7.5 percent increase in income taxes for a family of four earning $50,000 to $70,000 annually would mean they would pay an extra $116 a year.

That “does put in perspective what might have to change,” Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg defines the “rich” as a family of 4 making $70K a year in the world’s most expensive city.  You have got to be kidding me.  But that’s not all by a long shot.  Mayor Mike wants to eliminate property tax rebates, hike property taxes, fire 1,000 cops, raise sundry fees, and hire more meter maids to, as liberals would quaintly put it, raise more revenue.

I’m so glad the Republican Party supported the liberal Bloomberg.  He not only embarrassed the party by turning independent, but he continues to damage the Republican brand with liberal policies.  It would have been better to have a Democrat in office to push these liberal policies and let them own them.

That’s right.  If Republicans are going to rise from the ashes, they have to let liberals own their policies.  This will be especially important for Congressional Republicans.  If they follow the moderate “reach across the aisle” meme and provide a fig leaf for the failed Democratic policies soon to be pushed by Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, they’ll be slitting their own throats.

There’s nothing in Obama’s priorities that Republicans should support.  Are Republicans going to “compromise” on higher taxes?  Is muzzling talk radio via the Fairness Doctrine a good idea after the media just kicked the “moderate” McCain in the teeth?  How about adding 10s of millions to Democratic coffers by supporting card check for the unions?  Will the GOP add 20 million new Hispanic voters after they just broke 2 to 1 for Obama even though John McCain has been front and center on all their issues?

There’s nothing to do now but let the Democrats kill themselves.  They’ll overreach.  They’ll kill an already bad economy with higher taxes.  Be disciplined, take some media flack, get out of their way, and get ready to run against them when even a blind monkey could tell their policies have failed.

The unions are at it again—pushing the absurd idea that a card check is fairer than secret ballots.  But here’s an idea for the unions, maybe membership is falling because you haven’t updated your value proposition since the early 1900s.  Honestly, what does a union do for us today that isn’t already codified in law somewhere?

Management’s not responsible for declining membership; it’s their inability to react to a vastly different world that’s the problem.  For example, in an era of globalization, how does the union propose forcing a company to keep wages high instead of outsourcing?  Even the union fat cats won’t get their paychecks under those circumstances.

Governor Patrick repaid the unions for their campaign cash yesterday:

It requires employers to recognize a union without an election once more than half its work force signs union cards. 

Public sector employees can now unionize through a “card check” written option instead of the elections.

Patrick says the law “is about leveling the playing field between labor and management.” 

Being governor of the state certainly qualifies Patrick as “management”.  So is he really saying that he’s abusing public sector employees?  And if the ever increasing number of $100,000 state pensions qualifies as abuse, where do I sign up?

And if you can explain to me how “card checks” are more democratic than secret ballots, I’m all eyes.  The not so well hidden secret here is that “card checks” allow unions to pressure employees.  The simple fact is that secret ballots are the fairest method of determining if workers are going to be forced to “donate” to the unions and Democratic Party, which is the real thrust of this legislation.