Quotes by Nick Hanauer

Nick Hanauer

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

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Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

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I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don’t need food stamps – since when is that left wing? How did that become “leftie?” That doesn’t seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

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I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

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I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don’t think that I’ve moved left – I think the country has moved right.

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If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

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If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

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My message is that the counterclaim – which is that if wages go up, employment will go down – is a scam. It’s a con job. It’s an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it’s true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.

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Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

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Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It’s not the only thing, but it’s an indispensable part of solving the problem.

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Quotes by Nick Hanauer

Nick Hanauer

I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don’t need food stamps – since when is that left wing? How did that become “leftie?” That doesn’t seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don’t think that I’ve moved left – I think the country has moved right.

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

My message is that the counterclaim – which is that if wages go up, employment will go down – is a scam. It’s a con job. It’s an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it’s true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It’s not the only thing, but it’s an indispensable part of solving the problem.

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