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>> the obama minimum wage sounds like it doubles as a tax. that has not stopped ted cruz and company to kill a raise for the nation's workers. and investigation into today's "new york times," reveals that the economic studies about the harmful effects of a minimum wage increase are bank rolled by corporate interests. a corporation has no employees of its own. instead the employees policies institute share it is same headquarters and is run by a public relations firm that represents the restaurant issue. what group was at the top of the list that don't want to raise the minimum wage? the restau...

Week, those basically at society's lower rungs, that contempt comes first and the justifications for these tough policies are basically after the fact rationalizations. they retrofit their economic policy to go around a deep seeded content for certain parts of american society. >> i saw that, and i tend to agree with him, but the leader pelosi put it in stronger terms. not only for most of these people in the tea party and elsewhere who are opposed to this wage, these people are invisible to them. they're also indifferent to the plight of these people working at this very, very low wage. the r...

Restaurant chains. they want a government handout on top of a very low wage. it doesn't make any economic sense for the taxpayer or main street or for these individuals and families who are struggling at the minimum wage. it really has no sense of fairness or economic justice at all to it. >> congressman, you've had a storied career in the us house of representatives. i wonder when you look at stories and the fact that the coke brothers raised $400 million in the 2012 cycle, which was more than all the unions combined, or the same as all union es combined, you have th e thethes these -- there ...

Children. they just don't have enough money. people like ted cruz are trying to be flip and cute because they don't support an increase in the minimum wage. this is an amount of fairness. almost two-thirds of them are women. many of them have children. they're not teenagers. the vast majority are over 20 years of age. this is an economic reality in in country. the idea they should be paid a wage of $19.68 is ludicrous. >> congressman, paul krugman has a powerful article in "the new york times." he basically says that one gets the sense that contempt for the unemployed, and we're talking about ...

Harkin. it would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 over the next three years. >> right now, the minimum wage is lagging way behind the cost of living, way behind the growth in the economy, and it's back to where wages were less than they were in 1968. >> the facts are in dispute by the same people who tend to dispute facts in general. this was senator ted cruz at today's heritage action conservative summit. >> the president has told us he wants to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. the real obama minimum wage is zero dollars, because that's what everyone who has lost their jobs under the...