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Minimum wage/estate tax ploy fails.

By ThinkProgress on Aug 3, 2006 at 11:11 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.

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