Lamar Alexander actually said...

You know what? It seems to me the most interesting evidence is those of you who actually have to make these decisions.

I am afraid one reason we still have 12 million unemployed Americans is we have increasingly made it more expensive to hire full-time employ...

So if you cannot lower the cost of your people you hired, then where do you cut? What do you do?

I think the challenge for the minimum wage has not been high inflation rate, but rather, a stagnating nominal minimum wage.