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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTHE UNIONS ARE BREAKING US (& much more) The Nation's Intelligent Voter's Guide
http://www.thenation.com/article/168743/every-intelligent-voters-guide-electioneering-bunk
THE UNIONS ARE BREAKING US:
Its teachers and other unionized workersand their fat job packagesthat are bankrupting states!
In Wisconsin, two-thirds of corporations pay no taxes, and the share of state revenue from corporate taxes has fallen by half since 1981. The same is true in other states.
John Nichols, The Spirit of Wisconsin
From the email: It's already starting to hit the fan. By November you'll hear these claims and allegations over and over again. All electioneering BUNK.
As the 2012 presidential campaign gets under way, The Nation is here to helpready, willing and able to debunk many of the most prevalent lies that you, your family and friends will be asked to swallow during the election season.
Click this link to read and download The Nation's FREE VOTER'S GUIDE. In it we take on 13 of the most fraudulent claims, ranging from unions, regulations and taxes to global climate change, debt and moreall culled from America's most fearless and independent-minded magazine.
Please share it widely.
In corporate media, phony evenhandedness treats both sides as guilty of what only one side is doing. For nearly 150 years, one weekly magazineThe Nationhas stood in opposition to this media practice.
Nobody owns The Nationnot GE, not Comcast, not Murdoch or Time Warner. So there's never a corporate slant in our pages.
Independence is what allows us to present our readers with fresh ammunition for combating the lies, disinformation and outright bunk that we'll all be bombarded with during the 2012 election seasonon everything from the state of the economy to gun laws, healthcare, voting rights, immigration reform, education, and just about every other important issue you care about.
So check out our comprehensive Voter's Guide today, just by clicking that link.
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Sincerely,
Teresa Stack, President
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THE UNIONS ARE BREAKING US (& much more) The Nation's Intelligent Voter's Guide (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jul 2012
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senseandsensibility
(17,000 posts)1. kick for the truth
Great article. Great info.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)2. yup! they sure are...
my wife makes 11 something an hour for cleaning up shit and other disgusting things most people would gag over. yup she`s one of those union people who living high on the hog......