History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.
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Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.
I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
We're losing all kinds of white-collar jobs, all kinds of jobs in addition to manufacturing jobs, which we're losing by the droves in my state.
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.
Education is largely run at the state level.
We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.
Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.