Paris Hilton tax cut killed in Senate

The Republican's pandering to their base(the extremely wealthy) falls short in the Senate.















(the vote) "told the Republican leadership in no uncertain terms to stop playing games with the minimum wage."
--John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO

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.
Republicans needed 60 votes to advance their bill, which links a $2.10 increase in the $5.15 federal minimum wage over three years to reductions an estate taxes next decade. Passed by the House last Saturday, the bill got a 56-42 vote, four votes short of succeeding.

From Americablog