Michael Barone
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Michael Barone
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When you're looking at California, Texas, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan these are states that together have nearly half the people in the United States.
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Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.
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All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?