Donald Trump Quotes
The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving.
Trump, Donald. "First Presidential Debate." Commission on Presidential Debates, 26 Sept. 2016.
The mayor was explaining why he established a high-speed, municipal broadband wireless Internet connectivity in a town of only 6 thousand people. There had been none because the private sector didn’t think that they could make money in Scottsburg. A few companies were thinking of moving to a place where they could get modern technological communications tools.
This is a statement that in the early 21st century would be made only by ultra liberals. But in the in the late 1940’s this was not only standard democratic party thinking, but a large number of Republicans thought of the Government as the employer of last resort including their Presidential standard bearer.
This is the classic conservative argument against raising the minimum wage. Historically, if the minimum wage was raised well after there has been a period of wage inflation, there has been little or no negative effect on the lowest paid workers. However, when the minimum wage has been raised during a period of wage stability, there is an effect of making some workers simply not worth the rate that they must be paid. However, even then, after a year or two, the negative effect begins to dissipate.
Donald John Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th and 47th president of the United States.