Charles E. Wilson Quotes

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business.

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

The minimum wage should be a living 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 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?

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

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

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I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg 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.

America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.