Taxpayers to pay ALL union dues!!!-----Lansing’s friends-and-family plan will hasten exodus from Michigan

A Michigan run for the few will continue to lose people. Both young and old people flee the state - By James David Dickson

• Stop me if you’ve heard it before: Michigan is shrinking. Decaying. Dying, even.
• We got more bad news this week from the U.S. Census Bureau. Michigan’s population fell by 3,000 people between 2021 and 2022. 
• For the second straight year, Michigan had more deaths than births. About 18% of Michigan is 65 or older.

And now this!
Related reading: Two Michigan House bills shower favors on unions
The Mackinac Center’s Steve Delie and Michael LaFaive explained what’s at stake in House Bill 4235 in a Detroit News op-ed.

• This proposal means taxpayers, not union members, will be paying 100% of union dues ― and the dues themselves will most likely increase once the bill is enacted. 
• Union members get a full dollar’s worth of refundable credits for every dollar they spend on union dues. 
• Union dues would cease to be a financial obligation of the union’s members and instead would become a Michigan taxpayer obligation.