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SHRED

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Sat Jul-29-06 11:34 PM
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$2 for workers...

Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it’s coupled with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday.

The estate tax — aka the Paris Hilton Tax — benefits only the ultra-wealthy. This year, the exemption level is $2 million ($4 million per couple), which means only 5 out of every 1,000 people who die will pay the tax.

Bill Samuel, a lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, said adding the estate tax to the minimum wage “is the mother of all poison pills. It can’t possibly pass the Senate.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/28/house-conservatives-2-for-workers-but-only-if-paris-gets-millions/

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Repubs gotta try and butter the bread that got them there.
Even if it means screwing the working class, one more time.

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rubberducky

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Sat Jul-29-06 11:44 PM
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1. $2 over 3 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How many more raises will Congress give itself in that time??? What a freaking joke.

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driver8

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Sun Jul-30-06 12:21 AM
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2. "Oh bless you, kind sirs...for allowing me to have the measly crumbs

which have fallen from your plate."

What a fucking slap in the face.

Wake up, America -- before it's too late!

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