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years, roughly restoring the historic ratios. George Bush vetoed the bill; after some dickering a bill was passed and signed raising the minimum to $4.26 by April 1, 1991. This will be about 40 percent of the average and 81 percent of the poverty level.
In the meanwhile, legislation has been passed and signed, effective Jan. 1, 1991t raising the pay of members of Congress by $28,500 a year. Another 10,000 upper-level federal bureaucrats have received raises of from $20,000 to $42,000 a year. Vicepresident Dan Quayle, who strongly objected to giving minimum wage workers a raise of $1.20 an hour to bring them up near the poverty level, received a raise of $22 an hour ($46,000 a year).
It is clearly the policy of our government that the rich should get richer and the poor poorer.
AUGUSTUS C. JOHNSON
Syria
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