Wednesday, November 11, 2015
It's Unanimous
All of the Republican candidates agree. Working people should not be paid fairly, that cuts too deeply into The Great American Profit.
Fox’s Neil Cavuto, one of the night’s three moderators, led off the debate by turning to Donald Trump, positioned center stage as the leader in recent national polls, and asked if the billionaire businessman was supportive of those calling for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.Keep them working 60-80 hrs a week and they won't have time to make any trouble for those who are stealing the fruits of their labor. Of that all the Republicans are in agreement.
“I can't be, Neil,” said Trump, who, after mentioning his “tremendous” tax plan, added, “wages are too high.”
Cavuto confirmed with the candidate that he would not raise the minimum wage — “I would not do it,” said Trump — and the partisan audience burst into applause.
The moderator then turned his attention to Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who has challenged Trump for the top spot in recent surveys. Referring to demonstrations nationwide earlier that day by those seeking a hike in the hourly wage, Cavuto asked, “Those protesters outside are looking for $15 and nothing less. Where are you?”
Carson said people needed to be “educated” on the minimum wage. “Every time we raise the minimum wage,” he continued, “the number of jobless people increases.”
“Actually,” noted a post-debate fact check by The Associated Press, “that usually doesn’t happen.”
“If you raise the minimum wage, you are going to make people more expensive than machines,” said Florida Sen. Marco Rubio when his turn came to address the subject. Rubio, who has been gaining ground in some recent opinion polls, called the minimum wage “in the 20th century” a “disaster.”
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