If significant numbers of people remain unemployed, it’s because they have assigned too high a value to their own abilities. They can recognize valuable labor and will pay for it. Wealthy owners and managers are the ultimate arbiters of value. Coddled by food stamps and housing subsidies, they refuse to take low-paying jobs. They demand too much in wages, housing, and health care. Trump’s remarks encapsulated standard GOP thought on the matter, according to which the central problem in today’s economy is that certain people have become too expensive. People have to go out, they have to work really hard and they have to get into that upper stratum.” I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is. We’re not going to be able to compete against the world.
Responding to a question about a potential $15 minimum wage, Trump replied, “Taxes too high, wages too high. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke for many in his party when he argued that Americans near the bottom of the income scale shouldn’t demand more pay.
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