Absurd Quote by Nick Hanauer Download Open image “The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.” — Nick Hanauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Employment Ideas Lows Wages
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs? — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works. — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for a forty-hour… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
