More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.
We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we need to be able to provide a pathway to citizenship. We need to be able to allow them to be here legally and to do the work that they are doing and that we need.
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
It's understood in Minnesota that we're going to start losing businesses if we can't find more workers.
When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
The rich world has lots of well-paying jobs and an aging population that cannot fill them. The poor world has desperate workers. But while goods and capital can easily cross borders, modern labor cannot.
If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.
Cutting tax credits for education and training will result in more Americans working at minimum-wage jobs while U.S. companies go begging for the higher-paid skilled workers they need.
Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.
