The 2012 payout will be the lowest in our history: well below 50 percent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.
The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
As I see it, if the production of a factory is expanding, and workers are satisfied, it's OK for there to be a disparity. The best paid should be about three times more than the worst paid.
In business, no one pays you to have a really good year and then 10 bad years.
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.
Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.