ACTION ALERT: Sign-On Letter, Phone Senators Opposing New Efforts to Link Minimum Wage to Estate Tax Reduction, Other Bad Legislation
9/6/06

We are concerned that legislation similar to this summer's so-called
"Trifecta" bill linking minimum wage to the estate tax may be reintroduced into the Senate in the immediate future, possibly in the next week or two. OR, as the Capitol Hill newspaper "The Hill" reports, minimum wage could be tied to other legislation such as a package extending tax cuts minus estate tax rollback or small business health care.

As we were in August, the Let Justice Roll steering committee is strongly
opposed to any bill which seeks to reduce or repeal the estate tax even if
it has a minimum wage increase. (See our August 3 alert, for example, at
http://www.letjusticeroll.org/pressroom/alert7-31.html.)

We will alert you immediately if the minimum wage is attached to other
counterproductive legislation or stand-alone legislation is introduced with
poison pills.

Here is what you can do right now:

ACORN, a Let Justice Roll steering committee member, is circulating a
national organizational sign-on letter thanking senators who voted against
the first "Trifecta" bill and urging them to reject any future measure that
reduces the estate tax EVEN if it has a minimum wage increase. Please sign on to that letter -- as well as state letters -- by going to:
http://acorn.org/index.php?id=10628. You will need to do so not later than
Tuesday,  September 12th.

We also urge you (if your senator is listed here) to be in direct contact
with the following senators who voted against the first "Trifecta" bill: Washington State: Cantwell and Murray; Arkansas: Pryor; Louisiana: Landrieu; Ohio: Voinovich; New Jersey: Menendez; Colorado: Salazar; Rhode Island: Chafee. See the list below of phone numbers for these senators.

Please thank these senators for their previous vote against the "Trifecta
bill," and urge them to vote NO on any bill that holds the minimum wage
hostage to estate tax reduction or repeal.  If appropriate, please identify
yourself as a member of the Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign.  Let
your senators know if you are a member of the clergy or part of a faith
community and feel comfortable doing so.

Senators will be under severe pressure to change their votes. Urge them to reaffirm their opposition to any legislation that couples a reduction in the estate tax with a minimum wage increase.

Please continue to check our website www.letjusticeroll.org for regular updates. We are updating the website now to reflect the latest
developments.

Thanks.

Key senators to thank and urge to vote NO on a "trifecta" bill:

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