2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLet's play their game----and throw in raising the minimum wage
So Obama can say to Boehner ---"ya got 'til next Monday to give me a CR---otherwise, I won't sign anything unless you've got a min wage boost in it too"
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)the Democrats are not willing to destroy the economy. Of course instead to putting the gun to the hostage's head, they could put the gun to Boehner's head. That might work.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)tokenlib
(4,186 posts)--a clean CR or the 14th Amendment..make your choice...
Larkspur
(12,804 posts)Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)he will raise taxes on the rich by 25%.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Not the Grover Norquist wet dream of 15%. Oh, no.
MY flat tax!
The flat rate is 65%, and the standard deduction is 4x the annualized minimum wage (currently, $60,320),
Twice that for married couples.
Talk about incentive to raise the minimum wage...
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)hire back all the educators, restore school programs, and introduce Bolivarian socialism.
Oh, and we are willing to negotiate about Bolivarian socialism