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Posted on 05/08/2015 9:42:14 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Conservative presidential candidate Ben Carson says the $7.25 federal minimum wage should be raised.
“I think, probably, it should be higher than now,” Carson told CNBC’s John Harwood in an interview Friday.
Carson added that government assistance often provides more than the minimum wage in several states, allowing people to ignore the long-term benefits of a job.
"I don't necessarily blame people for saying, 'Look, I can stay home and make this money, or I can go and work this little chicken job that doesn't have many benefits,’ ” he said.
"However, recognize that if you go and take that chicken job, you gain skills, relationships, the possibility of moving up the ladder. So a year or two or five down the road, you're no longer in that position. This is what people have forgotten."
His stance on the minimum wage makes Carson an outlier among the likely field of GOP opponents and comes with Democrats looking to make it a key issue in the 2016 election.
Among fellow GOP contenders Carly Fiorina, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) and Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), Carson is the only one backing a wage hike.
Two likely contenders, former Gov. Jeb Bush (Fla.) and Gov. Scott Walker (Wis.), don’t back an increase either.
Bush said that the federal government shouldn’t raise the wage during an event in March. Walker told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in October that he doesn’t believe the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), who is weighing a bid, would be the only other Republican candidate open to raising the minimum wage. His advisers told The Hill in February that his stance could help him earn support from working families.
Democrats believe the issue will be a winner for them in 2016, with senators earlier this week proposing a measure that would raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020.
That figure goes well beyond the $10.10 wage that Democrats failed to pass when they controlled the Senate.
President Obama initially suggested a $9 minimum wage before backing $10.10. The administration is now supporting the $12 push.
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With every new comment Carson shows why he has no business in the race.
Maybe in a few years, but his time isn't now.
Cue Revrunt Sharpton calling Carson an Unca TOM for not demanding a 20 dollar HIKE in the minimum wage...
What does MW accomplish? How much less would people make without it? Not much I’m guessing.
I was thinking the same thing.
Apparently he studied and understood this issue about as well as he did 2A initially. Expect backpedalling soon.
Support for increasing the minimum wage in a period of high unemployment is a minor negative.
The real question is who is going to restore the import tariffs, and restore American manufacturing and put everyone back to work. Do that and you won’t need to raise the minimum wage, the labor market will do it for you.
He talks like a conservative sometimes. But he is for gun control and he keeps race baiting and saying things like this. He is not honestly even a Republican, let alone a conservative.
No religious exemptions for vaccinations.
Higher minimum wage.
Assault rifles have no civilian purpose.
WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT THIS GUY
Too often he uses “safe” words....like maybe, and perhaps etc. he doesn’t come down solid.
I do think it’s good he’s in the race but he cannot win.
Right. He should have run for Senate in Maryland or Michigan but he’s not ready for the presidency. That’s a curse of the GOP. There are a lot of good candidates who should run for state office but instead immediately go for the grand prize with no true experience.
Nice guy with his heart in the right place but no idea about how to help America economically or in foreign policy matters. He’ll make a great Surgeon General.
What’s important about this argument, like every damned liberal argument, is to have the same argument 739 times. As if the adherents of the other side are open to being convinced of anything.
No experience OR voting record on which to run.
Until leftists, including (R) leftists learn that, they will never fix the problem.
The proper solution is to get government OUT of the minimum wage business.
/johnny
“The real question is who is going to restore the import tariffs, and restore American manufacturing”
When you put up barriers to competition you get an inferior product at a higher cost ....
And in this case more money to the government!
Why is he called “conservative”? I know he had some views that were in sync with conservative views, but mostly he had no position on the issues. He stood up to Obama at a prayer meeting, he’s really smart, he’s black, he’s successful — that is the resume we are presented with.
But as someone else says, the more he speaks, the more it sounds like he has views on issues that span a range of political labels. Maybe he is a good social conservative. Maybe he is a moderate on government spending. Who knows?
What we know is that he has never held office, and we have NO idea how he would ever actually vote on anything. He’s never been in a debate, we don’t know how he’d answer specific questions.
In the current field of candidates, is there really a reason we need to jump to an untested, unknown personality?
Would anybody even care about Ben Carson if his skin was white?
I would say that Carson is inspiring and a fine man in many ways. But he seems to get tongue tied too often. He’s a fine man but can we ask, is he really presidential material?
I search the Constitution in vain to find any authority for the Congress, or the President, or any Court to establish a “minimum wage”.
Before Mr. Carson proposes to increase the “Federal Minimum Wage”, he should enlighten We the People as to where he finds the authority to establish a minimum wage at all.
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