One of the hottest topics for the new Congress is a proposal to unionize a workplace if 50% + 1 of the workers sign a card under the watchful eyes of the soliciting union organizers. Whether the billy clubs and brass knuckles will be openly displayed or merely suggestive bulges beneath overcoats is not clear at this point. The other 50% - 1 of the workers will be compelled to pay dues to and be represented by an organization they never approved of without any chance to vote on it at all, secret or open.

In today's WSJ, Richard Epstein of U. Chicago Law has this op-ed, arguing that this bill is not only astonishingly bad policy and unconscionably unfair but also unconstitutional.

Oh, by the way, the official title of the bill is the Employee Free Choice Act. Really.

I suggest an amendment to the bill. In the 2010 election for the House of Representatives, the party opposing the incumbent may collect cards favoring its candidate signed by registered voters of the district. If they get such cards signed by 50% + 1 of such voters, there will be no election on the first Tuesday in November in that district, and the challenger will be deemed the winner.