Last week, the president of the largest government union in America authored an opinion piece in which he sought to convince readers that it’s okay for unions to force workers to pay dues against their will, even when those dues are spent on political activity.

Because the actual purpose of his piece was so absurd, Lee Saunders spent most of it talking not about that issue but about others like collective bargaining benefits and unrelated policy questions. I responded accordingly, spelling out the facts of the core issue at hand.