> That's pretty spurious reasoning. Do I not have the right to do what I want with my money because I have to give part of it to my landlord?
If your rent is automatically withheld from your paycheck as terms of your employment and given directly to your landlord, then yes, that logic might hold.
Yet, it was still my choice to live there. And, and this is the most important part, I still earned that money through my work. Having it auto deducted from the paycheck isn't any different than having auto pay set up on my bank account.
That's the difference - you choose to live there. You can't choose to not be part of a public union, for state jobs that have one. Support for political causes should not be a requirement for employment by the state.
