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The New Yorker excerpts former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's insider memoir, Locked in the Cabinet . Reich recalls the minimum-wage fight, bemoans the influence of Wall Street on the federal budget, and fantasizes a conversation with Alan Greenspan that ends with the Fed chairman calling him a "Bolshevik dwarf."
Trouble is, we already have such a tax credit--it just got renewed as part of the minimum-wage bill, and it's a proven failure.
It's a mistake for these countries to argue that having minimum-wage laws or regulations keeping corporations from running toxic dumps will wreck their chances of competing in the world market, just like it's a mistake for small businesses to argue that having a minimum-wage law in the United States does irreparable harm to them.
(Dole included Hutchison's proposal in the economic package he introduced after the minimum-wage bill had sailed through Congress on its way to a sure presidential signature.)
According to the Washington Post , House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer slipped into last year's minimum-wage bill a new version of the huge tax break that goes to firms operating out of Puerto Rico.