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Trump say he’s open to higher minimum wage, goes after Sanders supporters
Washington Times ^ | May 4, 2016 | SA Miller

Posted on 05/04/2016 4:20:24 PM PDT by ifinnegan

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was open to raising the federal minimum wage, breaking with the prevailing view of his party.

“I’m actually looking at that because I am very different from most Republicans,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on CNN’s. “You have to have something that you can live on.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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1 posted on 05/04/2016 4:20:24 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

Disappointing....


2 posted on 05/04/2016 4:21:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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To: ifinnegan

Well, that didn’t take long.


3 posted on 05/04/2016 4:21:41 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: ifinnegan

I’m not mad about it.


4 posted on 05/04/2016 4:22:34 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: ifinnegan

Not a deal breaker.


5 posted on 05/04/2016 4:23:12 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: ifinnegan

The minimum wage should be pegged to inflation. Would take away the issue.


6 posted on 05/04/2016 4:23:15 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ifinnegan

You can’t have an open border and no minimum wage. That is a recipe for economic and social suicide.


7 posted on 05/04/2016 4:24:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ifinnegan

And he wants to keep small businesses here?

This won’t help at all.


8 posted on 05/04/2016 4:24:32 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: central_va
The minimum wage should be pegged to inflation. Would take away the issue.

How- minimum wage cost jobs.... how would pegging it to inflation help?

9 posted on 05/04/2016 4:26:08 PM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: jwalsh07

Not long at all.
Didn’t even wait for the convention.
I knew he would veer left, I only questioned how soon and how hard.

He was pretty quick to pull the trigger, now it just remains to be seen if Der Trump veers left or makes a hard left turn.

I’m betting hard left turn.


10 posted on 05/04/2016 4:27:06 PM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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To: central_va
You can’t have an open border and no minimum wage. That is a recipe for economic and social suicide.

How is no minimum wage a recipe for suicide?

11 posted on 05/04/2016 4:27:49 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Salvation


Trump, speaking with CNN for the first time as the presumptive GOP nominee, offered a glimpse of how he will seek to expand his appeal beyond the Republican primary electorate to whom he has catered his campaign platform.

Asked whether he would consider raising the minimum wage, Trump said he is “looking at that” and “open to doing something with it,” despite claiming months earlier that he opposed raising the minimum wage because the U.S. needs to keep wages low to compete with foreign countries.

“I’m actually very different from most Republicans” on the issue, Trump said in the interview Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/04/politics/donald-trump-john-kasich/

Larry Elder has been quite Trump-friendly.

It will be interesting to see what Elder says.


12 posted on 05/04/2016 4:28:04 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 11th Commandment
How- minimum wage cost jobs.... how would pegging it to inflation help?

Labor is like any other cost for a businesses and is subject to inflation too. Free Traitors™ should have seen this coming. The problem: Close all the factories and wealth creation and leave the USA with McService Jobs. You could see this coming from miles away.

13 posted on 05/04/2016 4:30:00 PM PDT by central_va
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-04/in-reversal-donald-trump-to-seek-donations-to-fund-campaign


14 posted on 05/04/2016 4:32:03 PM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: libertylover

You’d have every beaner pouring across the border working fore $2.00 an hour. The social cost would be enormous. As it is now at least with a min wage they cannot totally undercut the US worker.


15 posted on 05/04/2016 4:32:31 PM PDT by central_va
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To: central_va

Labor is worth what an employer is willing to pay for it. The prospective employee decides if that number is worth his labor or not. This is called the labor market and it works most efficiently without you or the government.


16 posted on 05/04/2016 4:34:07 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: ifinnegan

It’s all hot air. Take everything said on these side bar issues with a grain of salt.


17 posted on 05/04/2016 4:36:37 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: ifinnegan

The minimum wage will always go up. Saying he’s open to it is like saying he’s open to the sun coming up in the morning.


18 posted on 05/04/2016 4:37:53 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: jwalsh07

You myopic idiot. This isn’t a theoretical class in economics. Having an open border with Mexico makes labor an unlimited resource and that has no value. If you eliminate both border and minimum wage then we don’t have a country. But I do not expect traitors to understand any of this or care about having a country.


19 posted on 05/04/2016 4:39:00 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ifinnegan

Gun control cave within 6 months.


20 posted on 05/04/2016 4:41:27 PM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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