Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco: on Jobs


Mike Pence: Increasing minimum wage causes lay offs

[In the 1988 electoral race, Rep. Phil] Sharp and Pence finally met on the debate stage, on October11.

[On minimum wage]: "Increasing the minimum wage would cause businesses to lay off workers, he said' when you guys raise the guy on the bottom rung of the ladder, you have to raise everybody else's." He blasted Sharp and the Democrats on spending: "Their answer to every social ill is to spend more money."

Source: Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco, p. 61-2 Sep 14, 2019

Mike Pence: 2010: to create jobs, need across the board tax relief

Pence recounted a touching story: "I met a little African-American boy, in eighth grade, named David Carter Jr. His family had been struggling with the economy. His dad said, 'There's just no words.' Mr. President, would you consider embracing-in the name of David Carter Jr. and his dad, in the name of every struggling family in the country--the kind of across-the board tax relief we have advocated for?"

Obama ticked through a defense of his tax cuts in the stimulus bill, the state of the economy when he took office, and other means. The one thing he didn't mention, because he didn't have to; Why would a family living in a homeless shelter need a tax cut?

Pence's question sounded a lot like the answer he gave on jobs decades earlier, at the October 2000 congressional debate in Muncie; the unfettered free market would provide. But would it? It hadn't provided for this family in Baltimore, or recently for the families in Muncie, Indiana. Was there something Pence was missing?

Source: Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco, p.154-5 Sep 14, 2019

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