Today, someone can apply at that company and have no experience and start at $16 an hour. That wasn't a government prescription. That is the free enterprise system at work. I am very, very proud, as the result of the work that we have done over the last 2 years, the tax reform act, for the first time, we are seeing wages rise. Again, it is not as a result of a bill like this, which would have exactly the opposite effect on that ability to achieve upward mobility.
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