Yes it's legal to use funds to represent your political opinion. Yes it was legal to charge 30-50% more than the going rate of the teachers policy. It is also a real low down union thug, Chicago style political thing to do. It was down right rotten. It gets me sick to pay twice what Iowa and Minnesota pays in property taxes and find this out. Tm7, couldn't they at least have been competitive on their insurance rates? They took me and every other tax payer in Wisconsin for a rip off of a ride and cost me enough money that I could have gone on a grizzly hunt in Alaska. If I take all the property taxes I payed over the last 21 years I've owned a house, compared it to Minnesota or Iowa I would easily have enough money for an Alaskan bear hunt. Teachers knew it and never said a thing, now after I find the whole bunch ripped me off for 21 years I'm supposed to have respect for them? Bull, you can cut their pay to 34 k a year. I made that last year with 30 years as a self employed carpenter working in the rain, mud and heat, running up and down ladders all day long. They sit on their asses in 70* rooms. I have no respect for a 30 year old 4th grade teacher my son had making 59,600 bucks plus 29k in benefits. Been a carpenter longer than she's been alive. Then she bitttches up a storm on face book cause she has to kick in a little. TM7, I don't know where you live but shame on you if you live here, know these things and still defend these people.