Jason Kander Quotes

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

I am always astonished that conservatives want to save money by paying workers less—driving down the wages of working people.

The real minimum wage is zero.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

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

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage earner.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated ...

“A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realized?

If you go from $7 to $15 in a very short period of time, potentially that could have a negative effect on some economies because that is a very big jump. And you're saying to businesses that employ a large number of minimum wage workers, your payroll is basically going to double. That could have a negative impact. It would have to be studied.

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.

Those who claim that they need cash because they are unable to pay labourers are those who are not paying minimum wages.

Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.

It was a Conservative government that in 2016 introduced the national living wage, giving Britain's lowest-paid workers the biggest pay rise in 20 years.

I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.

I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.