The Market Speaks!
Last week the Albuquerque Journal editorialized that the state legislature’s budget plans were too heavy on the tax increases and too light on the spending cuts. This so outraged AFT New Mexico it issued a press release announcing “more than 200 teachers and school employees have told the union they will drop their subscription to the paper because of the editorial.”
Leaving aside the question of why you call your union when you’re dropping your newspaper subscription, it’s good to know that at least in some aspects of American life you can take your business elsewhere when you’re not satisfied with a product or service. If the real world were run like the world of public education and the disgruntled AFT New Mexico members decided to buy a rival newspaper every morning, they would still have to pay for the Albuquerque Journal, even if they didn’t read it. That way, readers wouldn’t be able to “divert essential resources” from the Journal.
So we congratulate those members of AFT New Mexico who have learned that removing your money is a legitimate way of expressing disapproval. Hopefully, as the Journal opined, state legislators will also see the value of that method.
