Kevin McCarthy Quotes
Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.
McCarthy, Kevin. "Statement on IRS Tip Regulations." Official Press Release, U.S. House of Representatives, 2014.
This appears to be the first political use of the phrase. It would take a century for legislation in some states to mandate a living wage. Roosevelt, as a reformer was incredibly ahead of his time.
Hubbard is one of the few 21st century Republican economists who was concerned about lower- and middle-class earnings, and one of the very few who ever advocated increasing government spending at all, much less for this purpose. In the 1950s to the 1970s, this was a common view of many Republican economists and politicians, but in the next 40 years, the Republican party moved away from its Lincoln and liberal traditions, and even became the party of choice for racists.
The debate over income inequality generally ranges between the two extremes of Christie’s hypothetical equal, mediocre salary to the extreme wealth of the 1% controlling most of the wealth. However , where America was moving in its most general affluent times was not towards equal compensation, but to a large range of remuneration with the low end and middle constantly increasing over time and the high end a reasonable multiple of the low end. However, the breakdown came in the last decades of the 20th century and the early 21st century when the low end did not increase (discounting for inflation) in 40 years, nor did the middle, while the high end increased enormously. So the nation had 40 years of growth without the lower or middle classes benefitting much and all the benefit going to the wealthy and most of that to the very wealthy. Thus the instinct was to tax the wealthy more heavily and spending the money to increase opportunity for the lower and middle classes. However, the political battle was waged over the taxing issue and not on what could be done to have the poor and the middle class obtain a larger proportion of the growth and a smaller percentage of the setbacks.
Kevin Owen McCarthy is an American politician serving as House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as House Majority Leader from 2014 to 2019. He was the U.S. Representative for California's 22nd Congressional District from 2007 to 2012 and has served in the 23rd District since 2013 after re-districting. The district is based in Bakersfield and includes large sections of Kern and Tulare counties, as well as part of the Quartz Hill community in northwest Los Angeles County.
