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Zachary Roper: “I would increase minimum wage to a 20 an hour.”

Featuring: Zachary Roper, Democratic | Candidate for Governor of Wisconsin

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Published May 14, 2026 | Video Starts at 06:16

We need to keep businesses afloat so we have good paying jobs in Wisconsin. They're my top three priorities. Thank you. What about minimum Wage, Minimum wage. I would increase minimum wage to a 20 an hour. It's a bold one for me. But it's about time that we increase the minimum wage from 725 or. (06:16–06:22)

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Asserts a plan to increase the minimum wage in Wisconsin to $20 an hour.

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“ICE was just seen at Carthage the other day and came as YMCA workers and in a giant white van.”
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“They were taking our teachers out of our classrooms. Their Spanish speaking teachers saying that their passports and they were undocumented.”
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“We need fully funded schools across the board.”
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“There's teacher shortages everywhere and just overall education has plummeted.”
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“The second thing that I'm really committed to is lowering taxes for all Wisconsinites, not just the rich.”
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“You guys have been paying a lot of taxes for ever since Trump took office two years ago.”
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“We need to keep businesses afloat so we have good paying jobs in Wisconsin.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 06:04-06:10
“It's about time that we increase the minimum wage from 725 or. Yeah, 725 or 750.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 06:25-06:40
“The voucher system really needs to go.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 06:50-06:53
“I'm gonna actively try to get rid of the voucher system and ensure that every single person, no matter who you are, gets a fair education.”
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“A few ways that my campaign has actually thought about lowering taxes will be taking money from the state surplus.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 07:47-07:53
“We really need to look at the tax brackets again and knock down the tax limits for middle and lower class workers and then tax more the…”
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“I actually have a little bit of surplus around $200 million going towards that education portion.”
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“Private schools will hang on to that money because of the voucher system.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 09:49-09:52
“We have homeowner grants be like, you know, a thousand dollars to help people first time home buyers to get houses.”
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“Affordable housing can be solved by cutting out red tape, building more apartments and many homes.”
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“I'm gonna put a cap on that. Of what they can and cannot do when it comes to buying out land and houses and raising the rents.”
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“I would be in favor of having more buses and places just for people to get to work.”
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“I'm fully going to be supporting child care tax credits for families.”
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“I stand for universal healthcare. I think anyone should be able to get health care under the sun, no matter how much money they're making or…”
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“I feel that the middle to low income bracket families are feeling the most left behind at the moment.”
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“Paid leave for all I think is a great thing. It should be implemented immediately.”
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“The legalization marijuana issue is a hot button topic between most Democrats all around the state.”
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“Marijuana is much more safer to use than drinking.”
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“I fully support legalization of marijuana.”
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“I do support a ban on data centers.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 22:12-22:16
“Data centers use up too much of the resources, drive people out, shut down businesses, and just overall tax stuff.”
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“The state budget was poorly managed and pushed through when Governor E. Rich couldn't get most of his demands met.”
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“The state budget is riddled with weird things that we're allocating money to where it could be going to other resources like roads…”
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“There's one in there for $40 million to help build a website and maintain a website that previous administrations have only allocated maybe…”
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“It took money out of the Knowles project and donated to another thing that Republicans wanted to do.”
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“We need to up hourly wage to like I said before 20 an hour.”
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“California has been able to get it [hourly wage increase] done.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 31:21-31:21
“A lot of them [college students] have been moving to Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, Illinois.”
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“Many of the doctors and hospitals have actually shut down over the past few months and years.”
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“We would fund some of it [hospital rebuilding] through the state surplus and then wait till the next budget cycle.”
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“In the Kenosha Police Department, they had another budget cut and had to cut, I think, 20 new officers off from joining the Kenosha police…”
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“We should defund ICE.”
Candid with Candidates - Zachary Roper | Uploaded May 14, 2026 | 48:37-48:39
“We could tell [ICE] not to come into Wisconsin like Illinois and Minnesota did.”
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“We can prevent ICE detention centers from happening.”
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“Every county in Wisconsin, in my opinion, should make sure that ICE detention centers can't be put up.”
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“They took them to the Milwaukee facility.”
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“Many newspapers have been quoted saying that I am the youngest person to ever run for governor in the state of Wisconsin.”
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