State of South Carolina secondary Archives: on Jobs
Donald Trump:
Bring jobs back from China, Mexico, Japan, and Vietnam
I'm going to bring jobs back from China, Mexico Japan, Vietnam. They are taking our jobs. They are taking our wealth. We have $2.5 trillion offshore. We're going to bring that money back. You take a look at what
happened just this week, China bought the Chicago Stock Exchange. Nabisco and Ford, they're all moving out. We have an economy that last quarter didn't grow. We have to make our economy grow again.
Source: 2016 CBS Republican primary debate in South Carolina
Feb 13, 2016
Gary Johnson:
Long unemployment benefits postpones dealing with problem
Q: The nation's unemployment rate is 8.8%. Among your proposals for getting the private sector to start hiring are eliminating corporate income tax, doing away with the Federal minimum wage law and to stop extending unemployment benefits, isn't that just
a windfall for big business?JOHNSON: Well absolutely not, I think that repealing or doing away with the corporate income tax is simply getting us back to where we were and we need to understand that the corporate income tax is a double tax.
And with regard to unemployment benefits, I'm in the camp that believes that we as individuals, we need a bit of help, so government helps out but at the point at which it runs out, that's when we really deal with the problems that we have as
individuals. That's when we deal with those problems. So does government actually perhaps make the problem worse, as opposed to better, by having a finite amount of time that you would receive unemployment benefits?
Source: 2011 GOP primary debate in South Carolina
May 5, 2011
Gloria Bromell Tinubu:
Economic freedom includes federal minimum wage increase
In a phone chat with Free Times, she talked a bit about what led her to challenge for the seat held by [GOP Sen. Lindsey] Graham. "I really believe in democracy," Tinubu says. "I really believe in freedom for people, particularly economic freedom.
It's why I went into economics. If you don't have economic freedom, there really isn't freedom. There are so many people struggling, without the ability to even make basic ends meet, because they are being paid wages that just don't cut it.
We haven't been committed as a country to making sure everyone has a fair share of the wealth they helped to create."
Tinubu says she would work to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $7.25 per hour for a decade. She calls $7.25 an hour "absolutely unacceptable" and says she'd hike it to somewhere between $15 and $20 an hour.
Source: Post and Courier on 2020 South Carolina Senate race
May 31, 2019
Henry McMaster:
S.C.Workforce Partnership: shift from toolboxes to tablets
Workers who previously carried tool boxes now carry tablets. In South Carolina, our workforce must keep pace with our own success. We must invest in our workforce development institutions. Fortunately, we have the talent, vision & means to do just that.
The South Carolina Technical College System is the engine of our economic and workforce development. We should use this magnificent system to the fullest extent. To that end, I'm calling for the creation of the South Carolina Workforce Partnership.
This new initiative will connect businesses with high schools and technical colleges to collaborate on internships, dual credit and certificate programs for students interested in the skilled trades--focused on rural areas of our state.
My budget also increases funding for Workforce Scholarships and Grants--so that more students can access the financial resources to obtain certificates and associate's degrees at our technical colleges.
Source: 2018 State of the State speech to South Carolina legislature
Jan 24, 2018
Jaime Harrison:
Current job protections the hard work of unions
Q: Support "right to work" laws, eliminating the ability of unions to mandate dues for workers they represent?Jaime Harrison: No. Supported the right of workers to organize a union at a Boeing plant in South Carolina.
Current job protections "are the results of the hard work [of] unions."
Lindsey Graham: Yes. Co-sponsored the National Right-To-Work Act in 2015.
Source: CampusElect survey of 2020 South Carolina Senate race
Sep 30, 2020
Joyce Dickerson:
Equal pay for women, and higher minimum wage
The three Democrats hope to win the Democratic primary and get the chance to face Sen. Tim Scott in the November general election."I believe everything is possible," Dickerson said. Dickerson is the only one of the three still holding elected office,
now serving her third term as a member of the Richland County Council.
Dickerson said she wants to focus on the issues of domestic violence, including teen dating violence, as well as equal pay for women, raising the minimum wage and care of veterans.
Source: The Greenville News on 2014 South Carolina Senate race
May 17, 2014
Lee Bright:
It's just a myth that government can create jobs
The myth that the government can create jobs is just that, a myth. Economic success that produces jobs is solely a result of growth in the private sector. The government can, however, create an environment that promotes job creation by lowering the
corporate tax rate & reducing the scope of government regulations that hamper business growth.South Carolina is blessed with wonderful resources that support business growth and needs a government that recognizes this potential and governs accordingly
Source: 2012 South Carolina Senate campaign website, LeeBrightSC.com
Nov 1, 2012
Lindsey Graham:
Biggest business headache is worker's compensation system
Anybody who has ever run a business can testify to the mind-boggling costs of government regulations. [At my trucking company], we also had to hire accountants, consultants, and lawyers, just to keep compliant with 48 different state-regulators, the
Federal government, all the while fending off the Teamsters union.And then there are the taxes & fees. As a business-owner I paid income taxes, corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, unemployment insurance taxes,
Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax, excise taxes, fuel and mileage taxes in every state we so much as drove through, USDOT fees, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fees, and on and on.
Our biggest single headache, however, was the maze of legal
paperwork that is the worker's compensation system. On top of that, you can add the trial lawyer industry which is perpetually scouring the earth for clients to sue companies like mine. This means we had to carry substantial insurance coverage as well.
Source: Lee Bright OpEd on 2014 South Carolina Senate race
Jan 1, 2014
Mia McLeod:
Raise minimum wage to at least $15/hour
Better protections and pay for the working people of South Carolina are paramount. I'm a small business owner whose family has been in business in South Carolina for over 107 years. I support a minimum wage of at least $15.00/hour because working people
should be able to afford rent, food, healthcare and other basic living expenses. I believe South Carolina can be pro-business and pro-people; the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Source: 2022 South Carolina Governor campaign website MiaForSC.com
Jun 15, 2022
Mia McLeod:
Let people decide whether to unionize, against right to work
We should trust South Carolinians to make their own decisions about whether a collective bargaining process will significantly increase their wages and improve their working conditions. While our governor demonizes and
vilifies labor unions, working people across our state continue to struggle to live on $7.25 per hour and between $42 and $326 per week in unemployment benefits.
Source: 2022 South Carolina Governor campaign website MiaForSC.com
Jun 15, 2022
Mitt Romney:
End crony capitalism to get Americans back to work
Q: List three or more specific programs that will put American people back to work?ROMNEY: Let's go back and talk about, first, what you do to get the economy going. We've spoken about our tax code that's out of alignment with other nations.
We've spoken about the fact that regulation is overwhelming us, that we need to become energy-secure. We have to open up markets, and we have to crack down on China when they cheat. But I'd like to talk about something else that President
Obama has been doing. He's been practicing crony capitalism. And if you want to get America going again, you've got to stop the spread of crony capitalism. He gives General Motors to the UAW. He takes $500 million and sticks it into Solyndra. He stacks
the labor stooges on the NLRB, so they can say no to Boeing and take care of their friends in the labor movement. This president is biggest impediment to job growth in this country, and we have to replace Barack Obama to get America working again.
Source: South Carolina 2012 GOP debate hosted by CNN's John King
Jan 19, 2012
Newt Gingrich:
Create transitional program for returning vets, like in WWII
PAUL: After WW II, we had 10 million came home. What did we do then? They cut the budget by 60%. They cut taxes by 30%. Everybody went back to work again and you didn't need any special programs.GINGRICH: The US government did 2 dramatic things after
World War II. They created a GI Bill which enabled literally millions of returning veterans to go to college. My father, who was in WWII, went to college on a GI Bill. So there was an enormous expansion of opportunity that enabled them to integrate into
a new, emerging society. The second thing they did is, they dramatically cut taxes, and the economy took off and grew dramatically, and it absorbed the workforce. So I would say we ought to both have a transition process for veterans to enable them to
have a real advantage in getting a job when they come home, and we ought to have a very aggressive economic program of regulatory cuts and tax cuts, so that virtually every veteran would have a very good job at the end of the transition period.
Source: South Carolina 2012 GOP debate hosted by CNN's John King
Jan 19, 2012
Rick Santorum:
National right-to-work law yes; Pennsylvania law no
PAUL: There's obviously a problem with car companies here. We had to bail them out. But there are foreign companies that build cars in this country and they make a living out of this. I think the union problem vs. right-to-work states [is one reason we
outsource jobs to China]. I've chided Sen. Santorum on this because he has voted against right-to-work. But we have to change these conditions to invite people back.SANTORUM: I've already signed a pledge that I would sign a national right-to-work bill
And when I was a senator from Pennsylvania, which is a state that is not a right-to-work state, the state made a decision not to be right to work. And I wasn't going to go to Washington and overturn that from the federal government and do that to the
state.
PAUL: As president, are you going to represent South Carolina or Pennsylvania? That's really the question.
SANTORUM: I said I would support a national right-to-work law and sign it into law, and would support and advocate for one.
Source: South Carolina 2012 GOP debate hosted by CNN's John King
Jan 19, 2012
Ron Paul:
FactCheck: Feds paid for 8M WWII vets to attend college
Rep. Ron Paul said, "After World War II, we had 10 million came home. But everybody went back to work again and you didn't need any special programs." Newt Gingrich cited the GI Bill, so we checked.After WWII, the GI Bill let vets attend college on
federal funds. According to the GI Bill website run by the Veterans Administration, "Thanks to the GI Bill, millions who would have flooded the job market instead opted for education. By the time the GI Bill ended in 1956, 7.8 million of 16 million
WWII veterans had participated in an education or training program." That directly contradicts Rep. Paul's implication: while the overall budget was cut after WWII, federal spending on the GI Bill increased (there were numerous other GI programs too,
such as 2.4 million home loan guarantees to veterans). It is simply untrue that "everybody went back to work": 49% of all WWII vets went to college on a federal subsidy, which also means it's simply untrue that we "didn't need any special programs."
Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on South Carolina 2012 GOP debate
Jan 19, 2012
Ron Paul:
National right-to-work law reduces outsourcing
PAUL: There's obviously a problem with car companies here. We had to bail them out. But there are foreign companies that build cars in this country and they make a living out of this. I think the union problem vs. right-to-work states [is one reason we
outsource jobs to China]. I've chided Sen. Santorum on this because he has voted against right-to-work. But we have to change these conditions to invite people back.SANTORUM: I've already signed a pledge that I would sign a national right-to-work bill
And when I was a senator from Pennsylvania, which is a state that is not a right-to-work state, the state made a decision not to be right to work. And I wasn't going to go to Washington and overturn that from the federal government and do that to the
state.
PAUL: As president, are you going to represent South Carolina or Pennsylvania? That's really the question.
SANTORUM: I said I would support a national right-to-work law and sign it into law, and would support and advocate for one.
Source: South Carolina 2012 GOP debate hosted by CNN's John King
Jan 19, 2012
Steve Forbes:
Farmers need policy reform
Q: Most farmers would rather get adequate pay at the marketplace instead of receiving government subsidies to tide them over. What will you do as president to help farmers get sufficient pay for their work? A: There are several things that have to
be done. - One is to open up foreign markets.
- No. 2, stop hurting our existing customers overseas for our farm products and other products by having the International Monetary Fund and Treasury Department
wreck economies by giving them high taxes and trashing their money.
- We also must get the Federal Reserve on a steady monetary policy instead of raising interest rates which
severely damages commodity prices. It happened 15 years ago.
- We must also enforce anti-trust laws, integration in the farm sector and the food sector.
Source: Republican debate in West Columbia, South Carolina
Jan 7, 2000
Thomas Dixon:
Raise minimum wage to $15 per hour
- The Federal Minimum Wage must be raised to $15 an hour to provide a living wage for all workers.
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America needs to protect collective bargaining power and promote equal pay for equal work, including overtime.
- America is the richest, greatest nation on earth. We need to find solutions to homelessness and its root causes.
Source: 2016 South Carolina Senate campaign website DixonForSC.com
Aug 31, 2016
Tim Scott:
Opportunity Zone jobs have seen up to 8% wage increase
The president deserves so much credit for focusing on the most vulnerable Americans in this nation. He's bringing $67 billion back into some of the most vulnerable communities in the country. I'm thankful that he supported my legislation, the
Opportunity Zone bill, that is bringing those dollars back. The good news is, in those areas, we have seen as high as an 8% wage increase. We're celebrating over 3% wage growth in America. Can you imagine areas with an 8% wage growth?
Source: Fox News Sunday 2020 South Carolina Senate coverage
Feb 9, 2020
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