Senator Alexander replied that if he could decide, there would be no minimum.
No minimum wage at all. Not $15.00. Not $10.00. Not $7.25. Not $5.00. Not $1.00.
The comment was delivered quite casually. It wasn't a grand pronouncement shouted by a crazy, hair-on-fire ideologue. Instead, a long time U.S. senator stated with calm confidence that if an employer could find someone desperate enough to take a job for fifty cents an hour, then that employer should have the right to pay that wage and not a penny more. He might as well have said that employers could eat cake and the workers could scramble for whatever crumbs fall off the table.
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The above quotations are from This Fight Is Our Fight The Battle to Save America's Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren. Click here for other excerpts from This Fight Is Our Fight The Battle to Save America's Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren. Click here for other excerpts by Lamar Alexander. Click here for a profile of Lamar Alexander.
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