Republicans bribe themselves to pass minimum wage hike.

The GOP is going to raise the minimum wage this year. A cause for celebration, even though it's only to steal away a Democratic campaign issue this fall. But it shows just how desperate, and how vulnerable, the GOP really is.

Of course, this act of charity isn't exactly charity. It comes with a hefty price. In the same bill is a MASSIVE tax gift to the rich. America's wealthiest 7,500 families will get a cut in their inheritance taxes owed. What does this mean?

It means the GOP tax cut is going to people who DID NOT EARN THE MONEY. It's one thing to give money back to those who earned it, but this tax cut will go to those whose greatest labor could be nothing more than being born. So apparently, the GOP favors the rich so much that they'll even give their relatives a tax cut, whether they deserve it or not. Kinda makes all those working class Republicans look like saps.


Back to the bribing... Since the wage hike was the GOP's doing, which would have passed overwhelmingly with Democractic support, this tax gift was entirely unneccessary--except as a bribe to get support from within the GOP.

(I'm all for tax cuts. But why does the GOP definition of "tax cut" ONLY apply to the richest people, those who have absolutely no need for it?)