Posted on 10/28/2008 10:34:30 AM PDT by doug from upland
Income Redistribution: California Teachers Association blows $1 million opposing Proposition 8
by Kurt Schulzke on October 28, 2008
If there’s one “value” shared by Barack Obama, unions and marxists around the world, it is this: If you’re going to spend money, make sure it belongs to someone else. The California Teachers Association has played this redistribution game for decades, most recently dumping $1 million in CTA dues into anti-Prop 8 advertising.
Today, however, California teachers can take some of that loot back. Specifically, teachers can take back up to $300 per year as a refund of CTA dues used by CTA for political purposes. If you are a California teacher and you support Proposition 8, you are encouraged to demand your refund now. More info follows.
DH writes:
. . . the California Teachers Association’s recently [donated] $1 million to oppose Proposition 8. For an organization that complains about the unsatisfactory compensation of schoolteachers, the CTA is certainly carefree in spending its members’ dues.
What makes the spending particularly galling is that the CTA gets its money through coercion. Even teachers who refuse to join the union are compelled to contribute to it. Union contracts typically require school districts to automatically deduct a “service fee” for the union as a condition of employment. State law upholds this profound violation of First Amendment rights.
I find this repugnant. As Thomas Jefferson said, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.”
Many teachers are deeply troubled by the expenditure of their hard-earned money to undermine traditional marriage. Thanks to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, they may obtain a refund of at least $300. NRTW explains the details:
In recent years, the National Education Association and the California Teachers Association admitted that about 45% of their expenses are not chargeable under Supreme Court precedents. This means that nonmembers who apply for the rebate end up paying only about 55% of dues instead of 100% of dues. Although the amount of unified dues varies for members of the California Teachers Association, the amount of the savings is at least $300 per year. (If you do this during the middle of the school year, you will receive a pro-rated refund for the rest of that school year.)
How To Save Hundreds of Dollars: You must follow these simple procedures to stop the California Teachers union from using your money to support its politics. These procedures come from the settlement agreement in Apple v. CTA, Case no. 96 1904 K JFS (SD Cal. 1997) and prior U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
Virtually everyone . . . knows a public school teacher. . . Please forward this message to the teachers you know. Thank them for their good work, and encourage them to exercise their right to a refund.
Act promptly. While teachers need not demand a refund before the election, doing so will send an important signal – and will help deter further contributions to the opposition.
how many books and school supplies could that money have bought
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Speaking of furhers, Hitler well understood the process:
“When an opponent declares ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say ‘Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’” Adolph Hitler, 1933.
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” Hitler
With no frame of reference beyond MTV, VH1 and their PC and multicultural diversity training in school, your kids and grandkids won't even know what's been stolen from them. And, as Adolph correctly observed, we will pass on.
After 100+ years of SECULARIZED government schools, I'm frankly surprised this country has lasted as long as it has.
My neighbor is part of CTA and has a Yes-on-8 sign in his front yard. He is appalled that the union made this donation. I told him I had heard he could get a refund of part of his dues but I don’t know the specifics. Unfortunately this article doesn’t spell out the specifics either. Surely there must me a website that describes step by step what actions to take to get this refund.
God! Why? Why do they care so much.....
I’m thinking the turnout to vote for this proposition is likely to increase the vote for McCain in CA... and how can someone vote FOR Prop 8 and for Obama at the same time???
Read the communist manifesto...
I know...I know. My cousins are card carrying teachers. I just find it hard to believe these otherwise sane people are so insane..
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