Minimum Wage Quotes

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There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney
Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal… — Rush Limbaugh
Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower… — Rinku Sen
The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the opposition of major… — Byron Dorgan
Iâ€™ll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill, — John Boehner
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40… — Elizabeth Warren
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills. — Milton Friedman
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. — Jim Clyburn
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic… — Irving Kristol
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast… — Michael Pollan
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty — Barbara Mikulski
Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't… — Matt Gonzalez
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of… — Paul Krugman
Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards,… — Gary Becker
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a… — Walter E. Williams
I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the… — Charlie Munger
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is… — Nick Hanauer
By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours… — William J. Clinton
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little… — Bob Black
Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee… — Murray Rothbard

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