Donald Trump's labor secretary pick Andy Puzder, who makes 300 times his employees, opposes...

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Donald Trump’s labor secretary pick Andy Puzder, who makes 300 times his employees, opposes minimum wage hike

"Does it really help if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job?" Puzder argued in a March interview

BRENDAN GAUTHIER

Donald Trump’s cabinet is set to draft another villainous job creator, Andy Puzder, as its secretary of labor.

The CEO of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. parent company CKE Restaurants, Puzder is a staunch opponent of a federal minimum wage increase — views he expressed in a March interview with Business Insider about automated restaurants, “where you order on a kiosk, you pay with a credit or debit card, your order pops up, and you never see a person.”

“With government driving up the cost of labor, it’s driving down the number of jobs,” he whined. “You’re going to see automation not just in airports and grocery stores, but in restaurants.”

“This is the problem with Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton and progressives who push very hard to raise the minimum wage,” he added. “Does it really help if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job?” To build on his dystopian hypothetical: If Andy makes 291 times more than Sally — let’s call it $4.458 million in 2012 — what thread count must his sheets be for him to be able to sleep at night knowing that Suzie’s out of a job?

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http://www.salon.com/2016/12/08/donald-trumps-labor-secretary-pick-andy-puzder-who-makes-300-times-his-employees-opposes-minimum-wage-hike/