[tennmountainman]

Then why didn't we (all three branches of Gov controlled by GOP)
make the tax cuts permanent?

[DonaldC]

Raise the Minimum Wage to $7.25: Clearly, Democrat Leader "Pelosi doesn’t get it – passing a federally mandated wage-increase would likely be most damaging to the very workers she’s claiming to help.

· Raising the Federal minimum wage would put up to 1.6 million American workers – or nearly 20% of minimum wage earners – in danger of losing their jobs because of the added costs on businesses, States, and local governments (according to Hoover Institution economist David Henderson). Job losses are likely to be concentrated among groups least able to absorb the shock."

I would think that rather than massive job cuts, it would result more in stalled job growth. Do any jobs actually pay minimum wage anymore?

[Trinity5]

"Then why didn't we (all three branches of Gov controlled by GOP) make the tax cuts permanent?"

That would have required them to have a set of balls. Many things could have been accomplished over the past 6 years if only they wouldn't have worried about public and media opinion.

[sgtbono2002]

Then why didn't we (all three branches of Gov controlled by GOP)
make the tax cuts permanent?

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Because although the republicans had the majority they didnt know how to use it. They had too many RINO's and they let the Dems get away with this Super-majority Bullshit.