Minimum Wage Update

Reports Chron.com:

The Senate late Thursday rejected, 56-42, a bill fusing the cut in estate taxes with a $2.10 increase over three years in the $5.15 minimum wage.

Seems like good news to me. Read when I first reported the bill or my article on minimum wage.

Republicans claim that Democrats blocked the bill only so that they can make this congress seem like a "do-nothing" congress, Democrats claimed they voted against it because they wanted to keep in place the estate tax (one of the main goals of communism, by the way, along with a graduated tax system and public education).

Either way, the American people dodged a bullet with this minimum wage bill. Let's hope Republicans get serious and don't try it again!