By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s bad enough that the National Education Association and other major labor unions use money stolen from their members’ paychecks to purchase victories for their pets candidates in national and state elections.

Now they’re putting up big bucks in an attempt to control national policy.

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The NEA and several other unions are planning to launch a “six figure” television and Internet ad campaign in coming weeks, pressuring Congress to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and avoid cuts to expensive entitlement programs, according to CNN.

The ads will air in states and congressional districts where members of Congress may be waffling on the issue, according to the news report. The target states include Colorado, Missouri and Virginia, where incumbent Democratic senators may be willing to support deeper federal spending cuts than the unions would like.

Of course the unions (particularly the NEA) will try to send a signal that their members across the nation are all in agreement on raising taxes for the rich. But it was the NEA that admitted several years ago that a significant percentage of its members identify themselves as Republicans, and we doubt those members favor the left-wing taxation approach to cutting the federal deficit.

The point is that NEA leaders are 100 percent socialist, and only their views will be represented with money that comes from members across the nation.

Here are a few facts that the union ads will not include:

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the wealthiest one percent of Americans already pay about 40 percent of all personal income taxes, while the wealthiest 10 percent pay about 70 percent. Meanwhile, the 50 percent of people who make the least only pay about 3 percent of personal income taxes.

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The wealthiest Americans hold the keys to full economic recovery. Many people who make above $250,000 per year (the rate that President Obama is targeting for more taxes) are small business owners who create about 60-70 percent of all jobs in America. You can tax them more, but don’t expect them to turn around and invest large amounts of money in business expansion and job creation. The government plan is to steal the dollars they might have invested.

Another federal tax increase for any American will only postpone the day that Uncle Sam is forced to get his financial house in order and stop asking for more. The government has not been able to control its spending for decades, and keeps returning for additional dollars like an irresponsible teenager turned loose in a mall.

At some point our national leaders must determine their priorities and balance their books. But that crucial day will keep being delayed as long as the American people, egged on by special interest groups like the NEA, keep giving them more money to waste.

We’re not suggesting that labor unions have no right to transmit their opinions to our nation’s leaders. But it’s sickening that they do it with money forcibly collected from hundreds of thousands of members, many of whom don’t agree with the message that the ads will carry.

It’s also sickening to watch the unions play footsy with the fools who run our government. We’re guessing that the Obama administration would immediately invest a lot of the new revenue in public schools, specifically to save the jobs of dues-paying teachers, whether they are still needed in their particular districts or not. That’s why the unions want to keep the tax revenue flowing, and they’re willing to buy expensive ad time to get their way.