This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Minimum wage bill heads to negotiations
The democrats and republicans are getting together to pass a new bill that may increase the federal minimum wage and give 8.3 billion dollars in tax breaks. Does this seem familiar to anyone else. Almost the exact same issue was forced through when the Republicans took control in 1994. This exact scenario is even spelled out in the first chapter of Stewart. You can almost see the indifference circles in this one as well.
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1 comment:
You're right, the more I study Political Science the more I see that history repeats itself. The packaging together of a minimum wage increase with a tax cut in 1996 kept the Republicans and the Democrats happy and eleven years later it will keep both sides content once again.
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