Subscribe to Dollars & Sense magazine. Recent articles related to the financial crisis. Senate rejects minimum wage/estate tax billOn August 3, Senate Democrats declined to swallow the poison pill that Republican legislators were offering them -- the bill linking an increase in the minimum wage to cuts to the estate tax that passed the House on July 30.OMB Watch has a good analysis that breaks down the costs that the estate tax cuts would have imposed. Frist opened floor debate ... insisting, if not threatening, that this would be the Senate's last opportunity, perhaps assuming that a majority supporting each of the parts translated into a majority supporting the whole. It remains to be seen whether the Democrats will continue to make the right kind of hay out of this cynical manipulation as the mid-term elections approach. Let's hope we hear them insisting at every opportunity that this was an open attempt by Republicans to undermine the increase in the minimum wage that Democrats have been working for.
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Your readers might be interested (okay, enraged might be a better word) by my post on minimum wage.
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I hope you and your readers will answer my question as to what the "correct" level should be for minimum wage. Ideally, you would also discuss the consequences of a high minimum wage or the ineffectiveness of a low minimum wage. I know I'm going into the mouth of the lion on this, so please keep comments polite or they will not be published. Thanks, Warren << Home |