if government union payroll deductions persist ...

Where Republicans fail to get rid of union dues for government employee unions, maybe Republicans need to come up with an alternative. I would propose that all government employees be mandated to pay into a fund for the funding and growth of Christian churches. The employee can then choose which church they want the money to go to. The keys to this plan would be that the employee would contribute to the growth of something better. All employees would be required to contribute to Christian churches. This would include atheists, Jews, and Buddhists . If these Christian churches would find it appropriate to use the money to open Christian schools, that would be acceptable. If these Christian churches would find it acceptable to give money to antiabortion groups, that would be acceptable. If these Christian churches chose to give the money to organizations of supported Christian causes but eventually ended up in the Republican Party or the coffers of republican candidates, that would be acceptable. Like the required contributions to the government employee unions, the rationale for the required deductions from payroll would have a surface explanation that sounded good for the average person to see that they were contributing to a larger calling. It would also have the ability to fund political action on the half of a particular party. If you have the added benefit of allowing all the people handling the money to be able to write themselves big paychecks in order to justify their actions in promoting this Christian cause. If we are to use the rationales proposed by the Democrats to justify mandatory payroll deductions to democratic government employee unions, this plan passes muster all fronts.