Actively Quote by Nancy Pelosi

High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When it comes…

— Steve Hanke

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want…

— Jim Stanford

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

— Nick Hanauer

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

— Lily Tomlin

If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing…

— Angela Merkel

Low-wage individuals barely get anything. I think we have to reward work, and I do think that we need to bump up the earned…

— Mike Coffman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

— Milton Friedman

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a…

— Anonymous

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government…

— Wayne Dyer

One of the great constraints on economic growth and employment is that the tax and benefits system has grown up over generations and does…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg