Minimum wage/estate tax ploy fails.
By on Aug 3rd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Minimum wage/estate tax ploy fails.
“A Republican election-year effort to fuse a cut in inheritance taxes on multimilllion-dollar estates with the first minimum wage increase in nearly a decade was rejected by the Senate late Thursday,” the AP reports. The bill failed 56-42, four votes shy of passage.
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I saw it on CNN first
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:13 pmGood, because the Repukes totally derailed the original, single intent of the bill.
And they think that’ll win over the voters???
QUIT PLAYING GAMES WITH MY GOVERNMENT, YOU UNHOLY SHYSTERS.
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:16 pm#1 – Cable news whore. ;)
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:38 pm‘gee…i thought these sort of people were nuts… sure a bunch of them’
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:49 pm
#3 – Sorry, that one was me. I forgot to change my name. ;)
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:54 pm[...] “A Republican election-year effort to fuse a cut in inheritance taxes on multimilllion-dollar estates with the first minimum wage increase in nearly a decade was rejected by the Senate late Thursday,” the AP reports. The bill failed 56-42, four votes shy of passage. Source: Fraud minimum wage bill fails. - Think [Feed] [...]
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 pmBut isn’t the minimum wage getting held up, also?
Centrism is for Suckers, according to Paul Krugman.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:03 amhi, everbody!
remember, i’m on cspan this weekend! i’m so excited; the show is just about ME ME ME. i am giving a talk in front of a girls-only thingey…
kisses,
ann
August 4th, 2006 at 12:04 amGood because the GOP laced sludge bill, for the wealthy, was bad legislation! After November elections the NEW Congress must pass a clean bill raising the minimum wage!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:14 amThe Texas Republican Party platform calls for the abolition of the minimum wage altogether. That is the quiet secret among many in the Republican Party. They wish to abolish the minimum wage. They will be happy when businesses can hire workers for $1.00 an hour.
That is the secret to the Republicans. They have a whole host of secret initiatives. No minimum wage, destruction of the social safety net, the exclusive protection of the wealthy elite.
They want to relive the guilded age when 10 year olds worked in factories and the wealthy built mansions by the dozens.
-GSD
August 4th, 2006 at 12:19 amYes Repubs want the Great Gatsby Era to return again to America > where the filthy rich dine on caviar while dancing and servants cater to their every wish, but they forget that era was followed by economic collapse, and the Great Depression, then global WWII with Hitler!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:33 amJay the rapture repugs are willing to skip the great gatsby era..too much idolatry and sinning going on…you know.
They might even be willing to skip the depression…technically not mentioned in the bible..
BUT WW3 that is what they want..real bad…”rapture time”
August 4th, 2006 at 12:50 amremember, i’m on cspan this weekend! i’m so excited; the show is just about ME ME ME. i am giving a talk in front of a girls-only thingey…
kisses,
ann
Comment by ann coulter
Hello, dearest. I’ll try to see your show this weekend, but I’m sure I have an incredibly painful dental procedure I can’t miss. I’ll see if I can schedule it…er, I mean I’ll check my calendar.
Just wanted to say goodnight – before you disappear again. Goodnight!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:57 amokay…hope you can make it!
ann
August 4th, 2006 at 1:02 amokeedokee, z!
hope you can make it.
ann
August 4th, 2006 at 1:04 amClif > yes the common Republicans, who I call GOPers, want WWIII ASAP, but the GOP members in the Congress cater to the wealthy, so they want the Great Gatsby Era back! Bush loves war, so he wants more violence in the Middle East, and seems to be oblivious that his actions might end the world, so the wealthy miss out on abusing servants again!
August 4th, 2006 at 1:05 amSo Jay is it GOPers lead by the GrOPer in Chief?
August 4th, 2006 at 1:31 amLet them eat yellowcake.
-Barbara Antoinette Bush
August 4th, 2006 at 1:51 amShocker: Senate rejects minimum wage hike and increase of tax breaks to wealthy…
Leave it to this bunch of JERK-OFFS we’ve got sitting on their fat, rich, lazy white BUTTS to blend a huge tax break for their own kind with a rare, tiny ray of sunshine for our Nation’s neediest folks into the very same piece of legislatio…
August 4th, 2006 at 2:31 amThis issue really illustrates so clearly the utter selfishness of the Republicans. They never really wanted to increase the minimum wage. But by pretending that they did, after saying ‘no way’ at first, they saw a way to perhaps get those estate tax repeals that they have been panting after. Give us the millions of tax free dollars that WE want and we’ll let you have your $2.10 (over 3 years) wage increase. And now we will be ‘treated’ to their “Well WE tried to do this for you, but the Dems said no.” But we won’t hear them say it was because the Dem’s didn’t want to have to give them millions of dollars first. Nope, they won’t say that, they KNOW what would happen to them if they did. Democrats MUST make the Republican’s real agenda here crystal clear.
August 4th, 2006 at 4:39 am[...] The good news is that the Senate knew better than to play the Republicans’ game and rejected the bill on pretty much party lines. This is another reason why passing the minimum wage increase here in Massachusetts was so important, we cannot gamble the lives and well being of hundreds of thousands of citizens of the Commonwealth on the whims and follies of the boys and girls in D.C. [...]
August 4th, 2006 at 6:02 amThis is pretty encouraging, actually. I had all but lost complete faith in the Dems after they had kneeled to so many of the Repugs’ agendas. They could have easily kept quiet about this, passed it in the middle of the night, and called it a great success for the little guy. It’s not like the Dems wouldn’t also benefit greatly from a cut in the estate tax…this is just one great example of their moral superiority and their willingness to look out for the regular American. They need to play this aspect up when asked why they voted against this bill. Just say “Hey, it’s not like I wouldn’t have benefitted from a cut in the estate tax…but it’s not right for me to take millions, while we give other Americans $2.10, like the Republicans wanted to do.”
August 4th, 2006 at 7:16 amCentrism is for Suckers, according to Paul Krugman. If I posted this earlier, I’m sorry. It was llate last night.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:43 amIt failed, as planned by the Republicans. Now it’s a political talking point for them in the mid-term elections. “The Democrats don’t want the hard working people of the U.S. to have more pay.” I wonder how many people will be fooled by this ploy?
August 4th, 2006 at 8:10 am#23
It failed, as planned by the Republicans. Now it’s a political talking point for them in the mid-term elections. “The Democrats don’t want the hard working people of the U.S. to have more pay.†I wonder how many people will be fooled by this ploy?
Comment by Vaughn D. Taylor — August 4, 2006 @ 8:10 am
I think that is why the Democrats need to play up the “I could have taken millions and gave you a few measly dollars…like the repugs wanted to do, but that is just plain wrong, and I won’t do it.” Vote Dems into office and get your fair up or down vote on the minimum wage.
August 4th, 2006 at 8:22 am#23 – The Democratic response is easier now because of the Republican partisan hackery:
“The Republicans, rather than pass a simple piece of legislation for raising the minimum wage, tried to add a tax break for rich special interests. Republicans showed their true colors by catering to special interests rather than help out the working class people. Democrats are for raising the minimum wage, but also for reducing the deficit.
The “Paris Hilton Tax Cut” would have only provided relief for about 8,000 families. The minimum wage would affect millions of working people.
When you vote, remember:
Republicans: working for Paris Hilton and the rich rather than fiscal sanity and the reduction of the deficit.
Democrats: working for the middle class, the minimum wage earners, and to return this country to the surplus that Pres. Clinton ushered in.”
Simple, no?
August 4th, 2006 at 8:44 amFun with statistics:
300,000,000 Americans, 100,000,000 American workers
8,100 Americans would benefit from the repeal of the estate tax = 0.0027% of the population
2,000,000 Americans work at or below minimum wage = 2% of working population
That means 250 times as many Americans would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage compared to a decrease in the estate tax.
And the Republicans are the party of the common man…
August 4th, 2006 at 9:34 amDem Soldier,
A contributor on the min. wage thread from yesterday commented that the estate tax “hurts” people like Paris Hilton, and that a reduction in the tax will help her. I asked him to explain how it hurts her. Haven’t received a response.
August 4th, 2006 at 9:52 amFrom crooksandliars.com on this:
August 4th, 2006 at 9:54 am
“They [Dems] want to say that this is a do-nothing Congress,” Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. “Their strategy is block and blame.”
sounds good to me! BLOCK & BLAME… go for it, dems!
August 4th, 2006 at 10:24 am#29 – And that’s different from how the Republicans acted when they were in the minority. . . . . how?
It’s Republican spin: They can’t ‘get er done’, so blame it on the Democrats!
August 4th, 2006 at 10:52 ami don’t get your drift, dem soldier… i must’ve missed something…
i know what the spin is – i say go with it:
i want the dems to BLOCK republican tyranny
August 4th, 2006 at 11:27 amand BLAME the republicans for their mistakes…
#31 – Don’t worry, somtimes I confuse myself! ;-)
It’s only called “block & blame” when you’re agenda is being blocked. Both sides do it. I agree, however, that the Democrats should block and blame the republicans for pushing partisan, special interest legislation.
I’m sure that once the Democrats are back in the majority that the Republicans will continue to support outlawing the filibuster. (Riiiigggghhhhtttt……)
August 4th, 2006 at 11:39 amI wish some “journalist” would keep asking the Repuglicans how their domestic and international policies are Christian. For being part of the political party that Ann Coulter called GODLESS it is funny how HER party is quite un-Christian.
Ghandi said I like your Christ but your Christians are so un-Christ like.
Actually 8 million people are = or sub minium wage workers so the effect would be great.
August 4th, 2006 at 6:08 pmRemember also that 59 African Americans left estates last year that were big enough to see Estate Taxes. 59 thats Fifty plus 9= 59.
This will benefit families….of the elected officials that won’t give $2.00 to a poor worker. If religious people are actually there to help the poor WHERE IS THE RELIGIOUS OUTRAGE OVER THIS. Oh thats right….they were the main Kool-Aid drinking supporters of those that will not give the poor $2.00. WWJD? How is this denial of a minimum wage a Christian thing to do?
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August 6th, 2006 at 2:34 pm