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Alabama: companies that voluntarily recognize unions barred from state economic incentives like grants, loans, tax credits (au.news.yahoo.com)

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 73 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Republicans - MUH FREEDUMS

Also Republicans - You can't do that! Using the principals of capitalism to better yourself and not a corporation? Your labor is not yours, it belongs to the company, how dare you negotiate the price of your product! Your choice to unionize must be prohibited!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They are the party of taking things away. It's literally the core of any legislation or policy positions which come from their party. The fact that they claim to be against government interference in the lives of citizens or fiscal responsibility are laughable details at this point. Even states' rights are something they believe in only when it suits them.

They are the party of hypocrisy and regression, and all their most visible leaders are a laughingstock to the world.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

they claim to be against government interference in the lives of citizens or fiscal responsibility

You haven't caught any hypocrisy here. They dropped that talk long, long ago. Constituents still have the idea in their heads, but the GOP doesn't so much as pay lip service to fiscal responsibility, small government or state's rights.

Can't remember when I noticed, but it was pre-Trump. Guess it's too easy to burn 'em in election ad sound bites.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I do feel like states rights gets trotted out as needed, if not as often as in the past. Isn't it their primary non-religious defense for overturning Roe?. Otherwise, I think you have a point. I suppose I don't hear those sorts of claims often like I used to.