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Some small businesses really can't afford to raise wages, some big businesses, if they have to pay more money, they may install more automated jobs. paul krugman says it is better to raise the tax increases than the wages, saying to respond to the profits, tax the rich and use that revenue. use it to send a check to americans working for low wages. not just minimum wage, but low wages all across the board. that way you don't hit small businesses who can't afford it and do get a contribution from big mega-profitable businesses that don't hire minimum wage workers. and that is what the obama whi...

Instant cash in the pockets of working people. and immediate imput. and it rewards people who are working and that is important to send that signal, to. they have a couple of hundred and they will save and invest. >> sorry for the interruption. and raising the minimum wage is how we know they will have a few extra dollars and i am not saying jump to 10.10 an hour. but we have 20 new states that increased the minimum wage and we can use them as a test case. but the economy is better than in 2009 when we had our last minimum wage increase. why not on the federal level as well. >> we'll get to ob...

I mean it's an immediate input to the pockets of the people who are working on an hourly wage. >> it rewards people who are working, and that's important that we need to send that signal, too, that they have a couple extra dollars to go out and spend, spend on their families, save and invest. >> sorry for the interruption, but, i mean, also raising the minimum wage is a way we know these people are going to have a couple extra dollars in their pockets literally. i'm not saying we need to jump to $10.10 an hour but we can't have a conversation about incrementally increasing it. we have 20 state...

>> so i see what you're saying. >> management is taking on more responsibilities and they're not even hiring other individuals. so it will affect the employment rate. >> jehmu, as you just heard, opponents of the federal minimum increase to the -- hold up. the federal minimum wage increase is what i'm trying to say. if people get paid 10.10 as a minimum wage salary, the people who oppose it will point to seattle as an example of what would happen on a national level. and you push back by saying what? >> it's not a fair comparison. i think we should start with the fact that in our country, if y...

Congressional districts, thanks to gerrymandering. and lastly, there's the father's stonewalling on a minimum wage increase. over the past month, a number of prominent republicans, including presidential contenders from 2012 have come forward, essentially begging their party to back an increase in the minimum wage. >> for all the republicans who come on and talk about, you know, we're for the blue collar worker, the working person, there's some basic things we should be for. one is reasonable increases from time to time in the minimum wage. >> let's not make that argue thamt we're for the blue...