House Speaker John Boehner dismissed President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the federal minimum wage arguing it would be detrimental for all the parties involved.
“When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it,” the Ohio Republican said in a news conference today in Washington. “Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people? Listen, I've got 11 brothers and sisters on every rung of the economic ladder. I know about this issue as much as anybody in this town. What happens when you take away the first couple of rungs on the economic ladder, you make it harder for people to get on the ladder. Our goal is to get people on the ladder and help them climb that ladder so they can live the American dream.”