It wasn't bad enough that Republicans refused to allow a vote on raising the minimum wage, while giving themselves raises of thousands of dollars. Now they are saying they want to have a vote on raising the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour. Don't start thinking the repubs all of a sudden want to help ordinary citizens. No, they are just trying to help their rich buddies and save their own skins.
They have tied the minimum wage raise to a cut in inheritance taxes. This is just a back-door way to give their rich donors even more tax benefits. They still will not support the minimum wage unless it is tied to tax give-aways for the rich. A few pennies for working folk - millions for the already obnoxiously rich. I guess they think workers are too stupid to see what they are doing.
But they don't just want to help the rich. They also are trying to help themselves. They have visions of Democrats on the campaign trail comparing Congress' raise to denying workers a decent minimum wage raise. They know that such a comparison will cost them a ton of votes in November.
Democrats should not be fooled into believing this new bill is a good thing. It's only purposes are to help the rich and save repub butts. Democrats should oppose this bill and work to defeat it. After the November elections, newly elected Democrats can pass a minimum wage without the garbage attached.
I haven't seen anything about it either, but thanks for the heads-up. I'll have to look closer now.
ReplyDeleteI watched it too! Glad I'm not the only one without a life.
ReplyDeleteMake that three of us without a life; 4 if you count Desert Beacon (a blogger in NV).
ReplyDeleteAs bad as what the Reps did (handcuffing a wage increase for the poorest Americans with a 300 billion dollar giveaway to the richest) the part that really ticked me off was the way they were sarcastic and gloating the whole time.
They were proud of themselves for putting one over the House Dems and working people all over the country.