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Nobody has a 'Right' to compel payment for unwanted services.
by nugi 9y ago
Nobody has a 'Right' to compel payment for unwanted services.
- pmoriarty 9y agoRights are a man-made construct. People "have" them if society decides to grant them. In this case, with the right-wing capture of the US Supreme Court, this ideological battle is likely to be lost by the unions, and the Supreme Court will just make up some justification (pardon the pun) for their biased opinion, as usual, and we'll just have to live with it, our opinions on rights notwithstanding.
- nugi 9y agoThey are. And one of those construsts is to not be compelled to pay people who do not represent you. Far left and right arguments against taxes aside, I think everyone agrees that you shouldnt have to tithe a church you do not attend.
- pmoriarty 9y agoWe have to pay for all sorts of things we might not use, like schools, roads, healthcare, police, the military, etc, through taxes. This is because (at least in principle) our society as a whole benefits from these things. Likewise, until now it's been thought that workers as a whole benefit from unions fighting for them.
- smadge 9y agoNobody has a "right" to work anywhere. Go work in a non-unionized place of employment if you don't want to pay union dues.