DGDevin wrote:

Good analogy. Here's another:

You've got some money in one of your pants pockets. A hand reaches
in, takes some of your money, and uses it for purposes of which you
disapprove, is it still your money?

Did you get your say during the election for officers of the
organization (which you joined of your own free will) that is
spending the money? If so, and if you'll get your say again at the
next election, what are you crying about? Because actually the only
hand reaching into your pocket is yours, you chose to pay dues to an
organization that got you better pay, working conditions and so on,
and you get to vote on who runs that organization, so it's not like
somebody you don’t know is picking your pocket.
Now here's the tricky part: If the union forcibly takes your money,

They don't. If you don't like the pay offered by Company X, you
don't have to work there, right? And if Company Y is a union shop
and you don't want to pay union dues to get the higher pay negotiated
by the union--same as above--you don't have to work there. There is
no "forcibly" unless you can document contemporary union press gangs
roaming the streets signing up members and extracting dues at pistol
point.
uses it for busses, free beer, and barbecue, do you have a right to
complain without being beaten?

The same right you have not to be beaten by company goons trying to
keep you from signing a union card (although lately they prefer
lawyers to goons, less bad publicity).

I doubt that - that lawyers are more respectable than goons.

But I'll take your word for it - I have no experience with unions. I live in
a right-to-scab state.

Texas has less than half the union membership as the nation as a whole (5.6
vs. 13.5%). Most of our union members are in government service, with a
smattering more in the oil and chemical industry and in communications.
There are almost no union members in manufacturing (fewer than 2%).