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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
We have to raise the minimum wage.
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.
Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong. For a minimum wage, you will actually reduce the number of jobs available.
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.
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