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Patricia Schroeder: “But let us think about how many minimum wage people are going to be at that dinner. I do not think there is going to be…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 1995
But let us think about how many minimum wage people are going to be at that dinner. I do not think there is going to be any there eating the dinner. There may be some serving the dinner because a minimum wage employee, if they work full time an 8-hour day throughout the year would make $10,500. And that would not get them even to the hors d'oeuvre course if they took their whole year's salary and put it there. A $50,000-a-plate dinner and the minimum wage and the Federal budget, how do we bring all of that together, because the issue in the budget is what we spend our money on, and who we think has the greatest claim to getting Federal attention. My guess is most of the people who buy those dinners have something they want. It just does not pass the straight face test to say, oh no, they paid $50,000 for dinner because they believe in good government or they wanted a decent meal.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the disparity between high-cost political fundraisers and minimum wage workers.

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