In a recent interview with ThinkProgress, Jamie Radtke, Virginia Tea Party Senate candidate, likened the minimum wage to “government price controls” and a bad idea.
(with a minimum wage) You are eliminating an entire market of people that need work. Price controls are never good.
She also said that the time for a government mandated minimum wage is passed.
There was a time when … you had the concern of what was going on in the factories, and employers taking advantage of employees. And we’re not there anymore.
This, when GE, the largest American corporation pays no taxes, makes billions,yet threatens to close factories if workers don’t agree to wage concessions and a full time job a minimum wage earns less than $15,000. Less than the poverty level for a family of two.
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Jamie Radtke Endorses Elimination Of The Minimum Wage
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