Republicans Tie Minimum Wage to Tax Cut – Forbes.com
If you’re a fry cook and you want a raise, we gotta let some millionaire’s kid (that probably hasn’t been born yet) have a tax break. That’s democracy in action!
Congress would pass an increase in the minimum wage before leaving Washington for vacation, but only as part of a package rolling back taxes on the heirs of multimillionaires, a Senate leadership aide said Friday.
The GOP is so desperate to pass this Tax Cut, they will attach it to anything and everything that should pass (without it). It is really pathetic.
The estate tax will help the middle class the most. Rich people don’t even pay it. They have tax shelters.
See: Ted Kennedy
Perhaps, Don, but ending certain estate taxes make it all moot. No need for a tax shelter if there isn’t a tax, right?
The fact that the estate tax effects approx. 8,000 americans (at over a million dollars each at stake) verses millions of minimum wage workers (who stand to gain enough on their minimum wage over the next few years to buy about a gallon of gas) shows just how screwy this deal is.
It’s dead in the senate, anyway. This is just so the asshats can say “I voted for it” when they make their attack ads this fall.