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You're making two assumptions, one that unionized American workers "broke" value by unionizing and two that "overpaying" workers inflated the prices of goods and services.

They are not assumptions. They are observations. The unions used the government to force employers to pay their members more than the fair market value of their labor. Consumers had to pay for that.

[ketsu]

They are not assumptions. They are observations. The unions used the government to force employers to pay their members more than the fair market value of their labor. Consumers had to pay for that.

If a cartel is price-fixing anyway, consumers will pay either way. Consumers actually paid *less* for goods and services(proportional to their income) during Union's heyday. So your argument doesn't work.