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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.


J. D. Hayworth

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BILL HALTER If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum w...
DON NICKLES Businesses, small businesses restaurants, service businesses can take a credit off of the minimum wa...
CRAIG MILLER It's been a frustrating week for us. The tax credit to businesses for health care is our number one ...
GREGG THOMPSON We don't want the minimum wage increase.
ANGELA JONES There are some businesses that will be affected by this, but the majority of businesses are definite...
MARSHA GORDON It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the mini...
GREGG THOMPSON It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL The most eye opening view is the unequivocal support for an increase in the minimum wage.
HUNTER BACOT Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT As a small business, I have to compete with the larger businesses, so in reality I hire very few peo...
CHEF LOU AARON On its surface, raising the minimum wage symbolizes the little guy. We represent another little guy ...
JOT CONDIE It's inevitable that we're going to see a minimum-wage increase. We have to face that reality.
BILL DOMBROWSKI It costs us more to provide transportation than what we get back, ... (But the increase in fees) wil...
DON PHILLIPS Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi...
DAVID BOWLES The increase is due to the cost of living and the rising standard of living. It was expected.
DAVE KELLY Since Schwarzenegger was elected, the minimum wage has already lost 10 percent of its purchasing pow...
ART PULASKI Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an eco...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY III Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA But, as ever, with each minimum wage increase comes the predictable wave of protests from business s...
BRENDAN BARBER We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minim...
ART PULASKI All you really need to know about this junk data study is that it was done by the same people who op...
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BETH BUSCH The thing that was striking about the minimum wage survey is that every group was in favor of increa...
DEAN DEBNAM The governor still believes it's appropriate for the federal government to take action but inaction ...
KATE PHILIPS There is a definite need to increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was hoping the state would ...
PAUL COSTA America's economy is best served by reasonable increases in the minimum wage, so that we don't hurt ...
DANNY DIAZ Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They suppor...
MARK DAYTON Why is minimum wage a number that is set in stone why don't we treat minimum wage rates like taxes t...
KENNETH WATERS JR Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
THOMAS PEREZ Senator Bradley is choosing to be an echo to Al Gore's voice in proposing policy that Al Gore has al...
CHRIS LEHANE Many small retailers couldn't sustain a higher minimum wage. It would drive some out of business.
BARRY HELLBERG It's important to note that the initiative provides an exemption for small businesses. It's also bee...
BOB SCHWARTZ Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ...
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QUENTIN TARANTINO I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you min...
CHRIS ROCK The vast majority are high school students or college students, working part-time. So when you talk ...
ALLEN DOUGLAS The increase in spam was due to an increase in tax preparation offers and other financial service of...
ANDREW LOCHART There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
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DAVID LOWE There is a wage premium in the Bay Area. The critical question, however, is whether that premium is ...
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SHERROD BROWN [The GMB has welcomed news of tomorrow's increase in the minimum wage to more than £5 an hour for a...
PAUL KENNY Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support th...
BILL HALTER We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to smal...
SAM GRAVES The immediate impact of the minimum-wage increase will probably be negligible because we are already...
CAROL PREGILL Working for minimum wage is like slavery but easier on the slave owner.
JASON CASE Total cost of ownership is an important factor for businesses, particularly for those operating with...
GARY NAIDOO Ours is a fixed cost for another three years and we are not going to have the revenue to offset that...
RICHARD LANGFORD You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
BILL CLINTON The minimum wage should be a living wage.
JON OSSOFF They've been distracted with the minimum wage, the water issue, so I didn't want to bug them about i...
GAIL WARDEN The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up fr...
THOMAS E. PEREZ The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL The waiver that was approved provides very limited coverage at a considerable cost to the low-wage w...
CINDY MANN Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity...
MATT GONZALEZ The lack of security awareness among small businesses is a growing concern. With continued focus on ...
RON TEIXEIRA We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting t...
JOHN FITZGIBBON These results are pleasing in that good revenue growth was achieved in the current low inflationary ...
BRIAN JOFFE We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage.
JACK CAMPER Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virt...
MICHELE BACHMANN Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not,...
GREGORY MILLER We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage ...
FARRELL QUINLAN If you're making the minimum wage you want it raised. If you're an employer it's going to affect you...
BUCK LAYNE My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.
BRUCE RAUNER I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.
JAMES COLLINS I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, s...
EVA LONGORIA [Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA Judging by the sharp fall, you could say there was a moment of panic, but we didn't stay at minimum ...
FABIO LARA J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path...
BOB HOPKINS J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path...
BOB HOPKINS There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages,
SUSAN MILLER Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages.
SUSAN MILLER By significantly lowering the cost of capital for small, medium, and large businesses alike, the pro...
TRENT LOTT That was a concession. But we understand that health care is expensive and there has been a dramatic...
ARLEEN STARR The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.
CHRIS CRAMER The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times....
JOHN FREEMAN No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.
THOMAS SOWELL I think (wages) will level off, but it will never be a minimum-wage market again.
GLEN HELTON The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
BRUCE RAUNER Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI Our members have not had a wage increase since 2002 and given that they live in a high cost-of-livin...
JOEL PARKER The large increase in profitability was due to the bank's strong expansion in retail lending, especi...
DIMITRIS HARALAMBOPOULOS Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
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J. D. VANCE I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. SALINGER I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. ...
J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER How long should a man's legs be?Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J. D. SALINGER Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it
J. D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J. D. SALINGER It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi...
J. D. SALINGER Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h...
J. D. SALINGER Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma...
J. D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow.
J. D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ...
J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe...
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r...
J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ...
J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s...
J. D. SALINGER Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
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