Problems with right-to-work law

If a right-to-work law is implemented in Missouri, wages will decrease, or at least remain stagnant, as they have in every state that has adopted this bad law.

If fuel prices go up, the price for everything that has to be transported will also increase. In the meantime, if wages go down, what happens to our quality of life?

If purchasing power is decreased, it would be logical to assume that sales and property taxes would have to increase, along with everything else. When wages drop, will you be able to both eat and hold on to your property?

If farmers, for instance, see their property taxes go up along with the cost of fuel, seed, fertilizer and equipment, will they be able to keep their farm if the price of their product does not increase?

Politicians who support right-to-work legislation would have you believe the financial crisis is in Missouri because we are not a right-to-work state. The fact is that this is a nationwide crisis, and these politicians do not have working peoples' (the majority of the voters) best interest at heart. These politicians have someone else's best interest at heart. Remember that the next time you vote!

Politicians should worry less about making Missouri a right-to-work state and more about worker rights. After all, the largest voting block in existence is the working class. Is that not who they are supposed to be representing?

RYAN HOLDER, Advance, Mo.