Corporate profits are guaranteed at all workers' expense. Why go after union workers who have helped their workers get decent wages and benefits? 

Why not complain about corporations that refuse to pay decent wages. Wal-Mart, for instance, costs you, and all of us taxpayers, because their poverty wages have to  be supplemented by taxpayers shelling out for food stamps and publicly-supported health care.

You say, correctly, " losses [from the recession] were borne by the middle class while Wall Street took the gains." Why are you blaming union workers, who have signed contracts that corporations agreed to, when the blame still lies with corporations bleeding taxpayers AND workers for outsized profits? 

Clearly, BTW, a **proposed** tax doesn't support anyone. If the tax goes into affect, the state receives the receipts and that money will go into the general fund to be used for education, health care, senior services, and other PUBLIC benefits.