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March 08, 2005
Conservatives for the Minimum Wage
The good news is that the U.S. Senate failed to raise the minimum wage at all.
The bad news is that supposedly conservative Republicans, led by (according to the linked article) "outspoken conservative" Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, wanted to raise the minimum wage by $1.10 rather than the the $2.10 the Democrats wanted.
Furthermore, Santorum, who is reviled by Democrats as an arch-conservative and is considered a possible contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, says that he has "not had any ideological problem with the minimum wage" and that, in fact, he voted for the 1996 increase.
With conservatives like this, who needs liberals?
Posted by Mike Tennant at March 8, 2005 12:18 PM
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