Thursday, September 18, 2008

Amendment 49 - Endorsed by the Rocky Mountain News

Today the RMN endorsed Amendment 49, the measure that will no longer permit dues for unions and other membership fees to be deducted from public employees' paychecks and collected by the government.

We do not need local and state governments acting as a collection agency for dues.

Unions use a portion of the dues collected to fund political advocacy, from lobbying the government for higher benefits to making contributions to their candidates of choice, says the Rocky.

Setting up deductions for car payments, credit card bills and gym memberships is incredibly simple. Automatic payment of union dues can also be made easy, fair and free of government oversight.

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