It's campaign season. Our televisions and radios are full of advertisements that tell us about the different candidates trying to win our votes. While the messages may sound altruistic and appealing, the type of mandates and regulations that these ads discuss are extremely harmful to small businesses - the economic lifeblood of our country.
Healthcare mandates cost, too.
In light of how damaging this type of public policy can be, when you see or hear these ads, think about how much they cost and whose money is paying for them. The ads are really about power. The ads are about big labor bosses getting their friends elected to perpetuate a system that continues to line big labor's pockets, ignoring the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Beck v. Communications Workers Union . NOT to support union political activity. Beck gave all union members the right to stop the collection of any union fees not related to the costs of collective bargaining.