Largest public-sector unions spent eye-popping amount on left-wing politics — 86 percent funded by member dues

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• The foundation published a similar report back during the 2022 election cycle as well, which found all four of these unions spent $708 million on progressive politics, The report's findings, particularly that 86% of the unions' nearly $1 billion in political spending stems from membership dues, underscore criticism that these entities work more to push a political agenda than support their members.
• "What they're doing when they're making these political investments, is they're trying to get people into office that will raise taxes and increase the size and scope of government," public-sector unions expert Aaron Withe told Fox News Digital.
• "That's the way that it's been working for decades.
• That's why you see the government grows every single year, that's why you see taxes go up most every year as well." FEDERAL PROBE DEMANDS CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION EXPLAIN MISSING FINANCIAL AUDITS SINCE 2020 Withe, a critic of both public and private-sector unions, said that private-sector unions at least have an incentive structure based on a company's or industry's bottom-line, but public-sector unions, Withe argued, are incentivized by raising taxes and growing government.
• "When you look at Union spending in politics, you have to remember that their goal – their primary purpose is a business – so they're there to grow revenue.