Back door socialism

Here's the list of states that the unions are lobbying to enact legislation similar to the "Fair Share" bill recently passed in Maryland:

Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin

The first push was to be in Wisconsin, but the measure was killed by the state assembly:

Assembly Bill 860 would have required companies with more than 10,000 employees in Wisconsin to pay 80-percent of its workers' health care costs. If not, then the company has to reimburse the state when those workers hop on to the state-funded Badger Care program.

Sound familiar? Unlike Maryland, the Governor supports AB 860:

A highlight from Tuesday night's State of the State speech was Governor Jim Doyle's wish that retailer Wal-Mart take employee health care off the shoulders of taxpayers. "Badger Care is intended to help working families, not multi-billion dollar corproations," he said.

I guess he's so blinded by hate for eeeevil business that he forgot that those multi-billion dollar corporations hire working families, eh?

Doyle's office said more than 1,200 Wal-Mart employees are on the state's taxpayer funded Badger Care program, costing the state $2.7 million a year.

But they're not working families, right, Doyle?

If you live in one of the above states, keep an eye out. And if you're looking for a job, the twenty states not listed are soon to have a boom.