Progressive Minds

Yesterday here on the blog, I mentioned that Republicans were going to FINALLY allow a vote on increasing the minimum wage, but at a cost.  I noted that the Republicans were going to hold a vote on the minimum wage, BUT at a cost. They wanted to entrap the Democrats into voting against the bill, by filling it up with goodies for their ace boon coons in the business industry. (Read my entry here: http://progressiveminds.bloghi.com/2006/07/27/just-for-political-reasons-a-republican-congressman-on-raising-the-minimum-wage.html)

Well as it turns out, I was dead on it!

Word comes today that Republicans hope to hold the vote on the minimum wage, but force Democrats to vote against it, by adding in a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.  In other words, they want to tie in the minimum wage increase to a cut in estate taxes.  Mind you, the estate tax is something that affects less than 1% of the American people (i.e your Torri Spelling types).

As I mentioned yesterday, Democrats have been begging and pleading for the GOP-led Congress to allow a vote on increasing the minimum wage, all to no avail.  Congressional Democrats have been so anxious to increase the minimum wage, that they have threated to block any raises for themselves until the GOP allows a vote on the minimum wage.

Now if the GOP were serious about wanting to increase the minimum wage in this election season, they would allow a vote on the minimum wage ONLY, WITHOUT trying to marry it to this silly estate tax decrease.

GOP makes conditions on wage increase