Boehner Would Rather Kill Himself Than Hike Minimum Wage
Boehner Would Rather Kill Himself Than Hike Minimum Wage
Speaker John Boehner "is so against raising the minimum wage that he once said he would rather commit suicide than vote for a 'clean' increase," The Hill reports.
Boehner made the comments about suicide in an April 1996 interview with The Weekly Standard.
“I’ll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill,” Boehner, then the head of the House Republican Conference, said at the time.
Four months later, President Clinton over Boehner’s objections signed a minimum wage hike into law that lifted the wage by 90 cents, from $4.25 per hour to $5.15.
It wasn’t a clean wage hike because it included some Republican sweeteners such as tax breaks aimed at small businesses. The bill passed the Senate, 76-22 and cleared the House, 354-72. Boehner voted no.
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