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Minimum wage it's because democrats did it. i think it's time for us to raise that wage from $7.25 to $10.10, tie it to inflation so we don't have to engage in these debates again and let that benefit 30 million people across this country and raise the wage base. i think it's important to move from there to things like how do we create jobs and grow the economy for all of the middle class. how do we invest in infrastructure to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. those are things that are important to growing the economy. >> thanks to representative donna edwards and nick mulvaney. >> go to fa...

>> corporations have used the excuse of a stalled economy for not investing their capital that they have been sitting on. and they have used the excuse of instability and what congress was going to do or not. you know what, we have cleared the decks. time to loosen up that capital. put it into the economy. start hiring again. you know, on minimum wage, we're talking about an effect on a small number of people, those significant. raise that wage base. it's not going to hurt this economy at all. >> congresswoman donna edwards, thanks for joining us here tonight on "the ed show." stick around, th...

Comes with it. but your point too is also one of the other points that jeff makes is that a lot of corporations are keeping their profitability and their revenue abroad where they don't get taxed and basically they're hiding it out there and the tax laws need to be reformed. >> well, here's what happens is, you get rid of your american workers, get rid of that wage base, you've got chinese workers, but you're right, the profits then go to the corporate executives and the shareholders. that's why you get the disparities of income in the financial world, we're all pretty well to do, get higher a...

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