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The Unions are collectivism, albeit Syndicalism, aren't they?The Progressives advance the Unions.
This is Marxism which is actually a economic system for the distribution of goods and services which levies a special "Tax" on all consumers by raising the prices.The price increases for the goods or services produced is used to pay "profits" to both the traditional corporate leadership and then the Union leaders, and of course, benefits to the individual membership.Each member of a unionized corporation gains benefits at the expense of charging the general public more for its end product of services or goods.
Those people who initiate the Progressive drive to Unionize based upon criticism of gouging in the form of making a Profit fail to see that they double those "profits" by raising the prices and re-distributing "profit" among the fat labor Leaders and hard working membership.This is De facto, a Tax on the larger society, re-distributed to workers in key economic positions, and add-on in the price of the goods.

You are really a funny guy if you believe a raise in your Public Utility costs isn't tax money which has merely circumvented the normal collection process simply because you re-define the connotation of the word Tax or those other words you need review.When the Teachers Union demands full pay retirement benefits after 30 years employment, the Real Estate Taxes MUST go up to get that money set aside into their retirement fund.It you own a home, review the tax paid to your county every year and you will see than @80% of that tax is School Tax.

Again you are unthinking and misled by failure to delve deeper into the facts and accept the platitudes that a liberal minded feminist society indoctrinates you with.The facts are that America has TWO kinds of kids, asdetailed and definitively described by Chas Murray in his recent book, "Coming Apart."With Welfare families now raising almost half of the kids in America, these fatherless children are responsible for 70% of all social problems, including High School drop out, failing schools, and violent crime.