Utah

A) The express purpose of a union is collective bargaining. The article simply doesn't like that unions exist.

B) What do Wisconsin's health care cost savings have to do with collective bargaining by public unions? The article admits that healthcare is the source of two thirds of Wisconsin's savings, but then links it, illogically, to lack of collective bargaining by public unions.

C) The article advocates for allowing public employees to opt out of the union. This has been shown over and over to kneecap the unions. And the kneecapping of unions has been shown, over and over, to create a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the billionaires. We KNOW that the demise of the unions has led to the demise of the middle class.

D) Some argle bargle about math proficiency in districts that reward merit. It's easy enough to institute rewards for merit in ALL districts without kneecapping the unions.

Utah did the right thing. And the WSJ article is simply advocating, as usual, for a system that transfers wealth upward. The real question is, just how much money do those people at the top need? When will they feel they have taken enough out of the pockets of everyone lower than them on the economic scale? What is their end game in demolishing the middle class and making everyone poor except a handful of people at the top?