The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney ponders how important the UPS-FedEx controversy is to conservatism amid reports that American Conservative Union chairman David Keene was selling support to the highest bidder:
Sure, UPS is playing dirty by using regulation to raise FedEx’s costs, but the substance of the issue — should the same labor laws apply to FedEx as to UPS? — hardly strikes at the heart of conservatism as taxes, bailouts, or abortion do.
Keene denied the UPS-FedEx battle is tangential or irrelevant to conservatism. He told me: “I think the issue of forced unionization of a successful company is not a trivial issue,” and is part of a Democratic campaign to “forcibly unionize the country.”
Yes, the playing would be level in a perfect world, but is legislation the way to accomplish that goal?
