It seems all the bets this time around is on the unions getting their "sweet deal" from the government taken away.
Wisconsin provides a good road map. After the union rot was cut out the state had enough tax money for all needs and to give some back to the taxpayers. What a concept.
I highly recommend "More Than They Bargained For" (Jason Stein and Patrick Marley) which gives a great account of Gov. Scott and his efforts to reform Wisconsin.
let’s hope pos roberts doesn’t say the union dues are a “tax.”
It was sweetly ironic here in WI that Walker, a non college grad true Christian man of the people, also beat those arrogant education thugs in a recall battle they were sure they would win because they got lots of out-of-state money involved.
Walker won three elections in two terms, helped cut my taxes, signed great new hunting and gun related legislation, caused Dems nationally to blow millions trying to recall him and even won the war against our own frozen swamp when crooked Dems launched crazy, secret, illegal investigations quite analogous to what Trump faces today.
The real lesson to learn is not just that we survived and thrived just fine without forced unionization... it is that Republicans can win and win big politically (we had been a blue state for quite a while before Walker’s rise to power) by having a freaking backbone for a change!
If we had a dang mountain in WI, Walker’s goofy looking mug would be carved into it by now.
On the other hand, we need Roberts, Kennedy (almost 82 years old), and Gorsuch to get to five votes.
Roberts and Kennedy are never 100% predictable on strong Conservative issues.
And I'm withholding judgment on Gorsuch until he has a longer Supreme Court record.
Minor correction: it was 2 years ago, when Obama was still in charge. Remember how he tried to fill the empty court seat in an election year and the Rs actually stood up to him? That seat is now Gorsuch’s.
Twitter is lit up with comments from the far left about this. To say they are unhinged is an understatement... One person said the average teacher’s salary went down by $10,000 in Wisconsin after the unions were weakened. Is that a true statement? Seems like a gross exaggeration to me but I don’t have intimate knowledge of the results.