That Would Boost Union Jobs, Membership Trade union leaders have been among the most vocal opponents of the Republicans' seven-year plan to balance the budget. But it now appears that they have been working against their own best interests. According to economists of the Heritage Foundation, approval of Congress's plan to balance the budget would result in the sale of 600,000 more automobiles over seven years than under current law. But trade union members aren't the only ones who would benefit from Congress's seven-year balanced budget plan. There would be an extra 104,000 housing starts between 1995 and 2002.
Estate taxes are partly to blame.
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