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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

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Nick Hanauer

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Class, Middle, Minimum, Minimum Wage, Overtime
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The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Businesses, Capitalism, Ideas, Law, Needs, Wages

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7. 25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. And all of a sudden, not just business thrives, but small business thrives.

Flower, Gym, Mom, Mother, Restaurants, Things

I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

Become, Giant, Ideas, Pay, Thinking, Wings

My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.

Jobs, Low, Scam, Unemployment, Usually, Wages

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

Drowning, Jobs, Lower, Today, True, Would Be
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