Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum Call for Higher Minimum Wage

Townhall ^ | 05/11/2014 | Mike Shedlock

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And how do you do that short of making it illegal to do so?

Eliminate the minimum wage.

[mjp]

I think we ought to raise it, because frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay

Why would you think that raising the minimum wage is compatible with more jobs? The only way both could happen at the same time is if inflation is excessive, and that hurts everybody.

[freedomfiter2]

Tarrifs.

[MinuteGal]

This is good. The GOPe possible presidential candidates are beginning to think together, blabber together and cling together. They are outing themselves early on by going public on all their liberal hopes, dreams and plans....giving us time to identify who they are and what they are...all of which gives us plenty of time to plot counter-attacks on their idiotic ideology.

Study their words carefully. Remember..."Know Thy Enemy"

("Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories"....Sun Tzu, Chinese General, 760 AD....from his writing "The Art of War")

Leni

[freedomfiter2]

You’re right. It’s not just business issue, it’s also a national security issue. Those who support exporting manufacturing are traitors.

[stockpirate]

Where’s McCain when you need him.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I agree.

I especially agree, now that China has become as large as America.

America cannot continue to send manufacturing abroad. We need to bring it back to America.

America is now in a competition, with China. Unless we bring back manufacturing to America, that competition will not go well at all.

Bring back American manufacturing, to America.

[Rockitz]

...and just like that Rick Santorum has dropped out of contention for 2016.

[COBOL2Java]

Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum Call for Higher Minimum Wage

What say you, Jeb? Do you agree? Is it "an act of love?"

Jeb? Just knock once for "Yes" and twice for "No"

[SoConPubbie]

We must tariff every product that comes from any country that does not have absolutely free trade themselves.

Every stinkin' one of them.

Amen!

Otherwise, it amounts to economic surrender on our part.

[stockpirate]

Well libfree it’s nice to see that you’re a liberal non-free market Romney type voter, maybe this is the wrong site for you.

[stockpirate]

the term “Fair Tax” is an oxymoron, there is no way a tax is fair.

[Iscool]

And how do you do that short of making it illegal to do so?

I'm not against that...

[Iscool]

Reduce the corporate taxes, we are about the highest in the world

How is that going to help the American low wage earner???

[Iscool]

Maybe they can use the economic analysis to identify how business expenses can be lowered by decreased taxes, decreased regulation to provide the additional income needed to pay higher wages for the same work.

You don't really believe that if businesses have more money in their pockets they are going to hand it over to their hourly employees, do you???

[SoFloFreeper]

Santorum? Pawlenty? Romney?

Anyone out there believe in MARKET FORCES????

[Finny]

I am not positive that this [higher minimum wage] loses jobs....once again the Republicans have to lie and say it causes jobs to be lose which is not true at all. In fact most places don’t even pay with minimum wage but more.

Wow. God bless you for being a Republican, but ... Where to start. Just ... jaw-dropping, wow.

Raising the minimum wage necessarily loses jobs, the same way that raising standards for admission necessarily loses applicants.

I'm self-employed and set my own wage. When minimum wage goes up, I must raise my wage accordingly to avoid an effective wage decrease. If I don't, I must do more jobs for the same amount of money, which on the balance sheet pencils out as jobs lost.

Raising the minimum wage is anti-capitalist and anti-free markets. It is also the root cause of many afflictions. It is a major component of illegal immigration, because our "minimum wage" is a heck of a lot of money to someone fully capable of doing the work who lives in a cardboard village. Plenty of 'em in Mexico. It is a major component of bad work ethic and flawed values in teens: without minimum wage, the machine shop or garage on the corner, or the homebuilder up the street, could employ and mentor countless bright but non-academic kids into exceptionally challenging and productive life paths, but minimum wage goes a long way to making it a losing proposition. Kids remain unemployed and retain an entitlement ethic with regard to wage.

[olezip]

You don't really believe that if businesses have more money in their pockets they are going to hand it over to their hourly employees, do you???

Democrats, loan sharks, gangsters do not care where you get the money to pay for what they perceive that you owe them; their increased spending, increased taxes, increased regulation, increased wages. They assume that you have or can get the extra money out of your excessive and obscene profits.

It is time for the lawmakers to stop mindlessly increasing spending, do you not agree? Or do you like the idea of micro managing businesses to make sure that they do not make "too much money?"

[VerySadAmerican]

None of the three fit to be in the GOP.

Are you kidding? The GOP is exactly where they belong.

What these idiots just can’t get through their head is they’ll never get that 47%. I thought Romney had that figured out but apparently not. The republicans can raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour and grant amnesty to 20,000,000 Mexicans and they’ll still get no more that 30% of the Hispanic vote.

[Finny]

"None of the three fit to be in the GOP."
Bears repeating: 'None of the three fit to be in the GOP.'

Either that, or WE are not fit to be in the GOP. If Romney fits the definition of "Republican," then ... what's the point of supporting "Republican"?

What are we going to do when one of them gets the GOP presidential nomination in 2016?