Marco Rubio: ‘You Can’t Live On $10 An Hour’
WASHINGTON — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) opposes augmenting a smallest salary because, he says, it wouldn’t adequately lift adult a center class. To accomplish that goal, the GOP presidential candidate wants to emanate new and better-paying jobs.
But campaigning in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Rubio inadvertently made a box for raising the smallest salary anyway.
“I have full certainty that a American private sector, done adult of a many innovative and prolific people on this planet, won’t only emanate millions of jobs. They will emanate millions of jobs that compensate more,” he pronounced during a debate eventuality in Portsmouth.
“Because even a jobs that are being combined now don’t compensate enough. You can’t live off $10 an hour. You can’t live on $11 an hour,” he went on. “We need jobs that compensate many some-more than that, though we have to have an economy and mercantile policies that make America a best place in a universe that emanate jobs that compensate more.”
Rubio has consistently argued that a resolution to low salary is mercantile growth. But to steal his logic, if a worker can’t live on $10 or $11 an hour, they positively can’t live on $7.25, a stream sovereign smallest wage. Furthermore, for many U.S. workers, salary have been prosaic or descending for decades
While in a Senate, Rubio has voted mixed times opposite legislation that would have increasing a smallest salary — including a magnitude that called for vaulting a smallest salary to $10.10 by 2016. He arguesit seems to be a opposite
Rubio recently denounced a devise to drastically cut taxes — though it is so gargantuan
Watch video of Rubio’s comments above.