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Earl Pomeroy: “we know what extortion is. You know those old movies? ``Give me all the money or the kid gets it.'' Well, this is…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2006
we know what extortion is. You know those old movies? ``Give me all the money or the kid gets it.'' Well, this is legislative extortion. You want a minimum-wage increase? Give the multimillionaire families a tax break. No tax break for multimillionaires, no minimum-wage increase. So who gets this tax break? Well, as you can see, the bulk of it goes to estates worth more than $20 million. How much do these estates get? As you see, they get $5.8 million on average. So that is the deal they offer us: Oh, we will give you an increase in that $5.15 per hour minimum wage, just as long as you give $5.8 million to those $20 million estates. What do they think, we are crazy? That is no deal. That is legislative extortion, and it needs to be rejected with a ``no'' vote tonight.
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Earl Pomeroy
North Dakota
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