Another Clarion Call From the House of Shame
Not satisfied by merely putting off a meaningful minimum wage increase for another three years, the House insists on the quid pro-quo of immediate relief of the estate tax.
The Senate is, and has been for some years, the only hope for reason on the soap-opera that is Washington politics. By contrast, the House of Representatives is the nitwitery of lawmaking.
Example #4,278 (and counting) came just Friday, as the House released their years-long grip on the minimum wage, only after holding a gun to the head of the poor. John Boehner is Whip over there and Dennis-the Menace Hastert is Speaker.
A little background. The current minimum wage is $5.15 an hour and hasn’t been adjusted since it was passed in (get this) 1996.
That was
Five years before 9-11
Four years before the Supreme Court seated the current ‘compassionate conservative
Six years before a tsunami of tax cuts for the super-rich of the nation
Three years before the country’s kids were sent off to battle for the security we require to …