GOP Debate: Santorum defends raising minimum wage, Former Sen. Rick Santorum on Wednesday dedicated his position as one of the alone GOP presidential candidates to abutment a minimum allowance hike, bashing his affair as benign businesses over employees.
Pushing aback adjoin Sen. Lindsey Graham's (S.C.) criticism, he acclaimed that beneath than 1 percent of American workers are earning the minimum wage.
"What every Republican is up there adage is that we are adjoin the minimum wage, because if you are not for accretion it and [few] are authoritative the minimum allowance appropriate now, the acknowledgment is: Republicans don't accept in a attic allowance in America," he said during Wednesday's Republican presidential agitation in California.
"Fine, you go and accomplish that case to the American public. I’m not traveling to. Not from a affair that accurate bailouts ... not from a affair that supports appropriate absorption tax accoutrement for a accomplished agglomeration of added businesses. But if it comes to accomplished Americans who are at the basal of the assets scale, we can't accommodate some akin of assets support."
Santorum has proposed a baby access of the federal minimum wage, currently at $7.25, of 50 cents over three years. The alone added GOP presidential applicant to appearance some abutment for a minimum allowance backpack is retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Santorum acicular to the eyes of the GOP's 2012 convention, which bashed President Obama for adage that business owners didn't body their businesses afterwards advice from others or from the government.
"We trotted out one baby business being afterwards addition for about an hour that night. ... You apperceive what we didn't do? we didn't accompany one artisan on that stage," he said.
"Republicans are accident elections because we aren’t demography about [workers], all we wish to allocution about is what happened to business, there are humans that plan in those businesses."
Pushing aback adjoin Sen. Lindsey Graham's (S.C.) criticism, he acclaimed that beneath than 1 percent of American workers are earning the minimum wage.
"Fine, you go and accomplish that case to the American public. I’m not traveling to. Not from a affair that accurate bailouts ... not from a affair that supports appropriate absorption tax accoutrement for a accomplished agglomeration of added businesses. But if it comes to accomplished Americans who are at the basal of the assets scale, we can't accommodate some akin of assets support."
Santorum has proposed a baby access of the federal minimum wage, currently at $7.25, of 50 cents over three years. The alone added GOP presidential applicant to appearance some abutment for a minimum allowance backpack is retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
"We trotted out one baby business being afterwards addition for about an hour that night. ... You apperceive what we didn't do? we didn't accompany one artisan on that stage," he said.
"Republicans are accident elections because we aren’t demography about [workers], all we wish to allocution about is what happened to business, there are humans that plan in those businesses."
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