The April 1 letter, “Taxpayers have no seat at table,” by Chris Forzano got one thing half right: The Wisconsin governor isn’t in the union’s pockets; he is more likely in the pockets of the billionaire Koch brothers.
Forzano’s use of the convoluted logic seen in a March column by Don Brunell, president of the Association of Washington Business, on the subject of public employee pay being used by unions in electing candidates begs the question that maybe companies and their employees who do business with governments should be looked at in the same way for the same reasons.
The nine states that do not have collective bargaining have a higher indebtedness than states that have collective bargaining. Maybe it’s all the special interest tax breaks that total in the billions of dollars that are causing all the budget problems in Washington.
Edward D. Brandt
Yacolt