Illinois GOPer Running For Gov: I Want To Lower The Minimum Wage [View all]
DANIEL STRAUSS – JANUARY 8, 2014, 12:11 PM EST
An Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate has a counter-proposal to minimum wage hike proponents: let's lower it instead.
Businessman Bruce Rauner, who polls have found to be leading the pack of Republicans seeking the nomination to challenge Gov. Pat Quinn (D), told a local radio station that he wants to see the state's minimum wage of $8.25 an hour lowered to $7.25 an hour.
"I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage," Rauner told Illinois's WGBZ-AM radio station on Tuesday. "I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois."
Quinn and the Obama administration have both called for an increase in the minimum wage. Obama wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and Quinn has called for raising the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour.
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