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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Citizens United.  Full stop.  Money isn't speech, I don't care what SCOTUS says. It lets the Kock brothers spend tens of millions of dollars on sketchy PACs, and essentially buy congressmen and the President . Who are government officials going to listen to?  Them and their multi-million donation or the 10,000 Americans who can donate $100 each?  Citizens United gives a select few Americans enormous power in government.

Federal elections should be funded through our tax dollars, with no one able to donate more than a nominal amount. [/quote]

Citizens United has you up in arms, but confiscating union dues from workers and having union goons throwing those confiscated dollars (against the will of workers who EARNED those dollars) towards democrat candidates is OK, right???   Tell me more!

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Nope.  I'm in a federal union and pay dues, but it is right to work.  I do not believe in mandating union membership, and I am fine with the fact I choose to pay dues and some people don't.  My union has done good work for me, like our new telework agreement, and I believe in supporting that. But other people might not, and that's fine. If enough poeople don't think the union is worth the dues, the union will cease to exist.

And to the extent people choose belong to unions, I believe the unions should focus on improving their working conditions and not on raising or donating money to anyone, of either party.  I can choose who to donate to myself. I don't need the union to make that call for me.

But nice ASSumption. [/quote]

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