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J. D. Vance: “The solution to that problem is to raise wages for working…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Sen. JD Vance _ The Tim Dillon Show #414

Published | Video Starts at 59:13

Mass homelessness in the United States of America in 1964, until we created this housing oasis by bringing in millions of illegal aliens. The real truth, of course, is there are jobs Americans won't do at certain wages. Right? And so The solution to that problem is to raise wages for working people to get more of them into the labor force and not to constantly import this serf class. It's also, man, this is very corrosive to like the idea of American democracy, right? Small D American democracy, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, go back to the original founding fathers. (59:13–59:22)

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Asserts that raising wages, not importing low-wage workers, is the solution to labor force issues.

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