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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thehammer who wrote (35988)	9/10/2000 6:05:55 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 769667

Ownership of a security does not require one to pay periodic dues. No, but the owner wouldn't own the security if he hadn't paid for it. The parallel between union and corporate political spending is closer than you make out IMO. Remember shareholders own the company and every dollar a corporation spends on anything is shareholder money. What if a corporation, as a condition of employment forced their employees to contribute to a fund. These are called PAC's - political action committees - and some companies lean on employees (usually executives) to contribute.