The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

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.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

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.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.