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Jeff Duncan: “Well, all I am saying is that you certainly wouldn't have any trouble getting employees in, I think, probably 98 percent…”

On the recordApril 16, 2013
Well, all I am saying is that you certainly wouldn't have any trouble getting employees in, I think, probably 98 percent of the Country, paying those kind of wages, $24, $25 an hour, even if you told new employees that, unfortunately, we can't continue to pay the retirement and health benefits that we have always paid.
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

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Arguing that competitive wages would attract employees despite reduced benefits.

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