{"id":11701,"date":"2014-04-19T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=11701"},"modified":"2014-04-19T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:00:44","slug":"letter-in-support-of-paycheck-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=11701","title":{"rendered":"Letter: In support of paycheck protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-770676\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Letters1\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Letters1.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>Pennsylvania needs Paycheck Protection laws. It&#8217;s not fair that public sector unions have special privilege.\u00a0 It is not the responsibility of government entities to collect union dues.\u00a0\u00a0 Furthermore, I do not want my tax dollars being used\u00a0to\u00a0collect union dues &#8211;\u00a0and that includes using our\/my tax dollars to collect\u00a0union dues in our school districts.\u00a0\u00a0 Should taxpayers be the union&#8217;s accounting firm and collection service?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Unions need to do the collecting of dues themselves &#8211; directly from their members.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to end the special privilege afforded to public sector unions at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Jane E Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Franklin Township<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor: Pennsylvania needs Paycheck Protection laws. It&#8217;s not fair that public sector unions have special privilege.\u00a0 It is not the responsibility of government entities to collect union dues.\u00a0\u00a0 Furthermore, I do not want my tax dollars being used\u00a0to\u00a0collect union dues &#8211;\u00a0and that includes using our\/my tax dollars to collect\u00a0union dues in our school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[4451,4452],"class_list":["post-11701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-paycheck-protection","tag-public-sector-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}