{"id":1939,"date":"2015-09-08T15:26:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2015-09-08T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:26:53","slug":"charles-trump-open-to-repeal-of-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"Charles Trump Open to Repeal of Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia State Senator Charles Trump (R-Morgan 15) is open to the repeal of the state\u2019s minimum wage law.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he would repeal the minimum wage altogether, Trump said \u201cit would certainly be something I would give consideration to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e3mWG7SuWOw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn elected official or a candidate who walks out on a limb and talks about it runs the risk of being painted as anti-decent wages or anti-workers,\u201d Trump told This Week in Morgan County with Russell Mokhiber. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not true. I would flip the argument and say &#8212; why don\u2019t we just have a minimum wage for everybody that is $75 an hour?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody recognizes that if you said &#8212; everybody has to be paid $75 an hour &#8212; lots of jobs would vanish,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere are complete business models that can\u2019t exist in the current climate with that sort of mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he considers himself a \u201cFriend of Coal\u201d and opposes what he calls \u201cgovernment mandates\u201d to push the state toward solar and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rRVlcd0UNso\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat nobody seems to be talking about is the misery, cost and expense when their power rates &#8212; the costs for energy &#8212; double and triple because of mandates for renewable sources,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to mean, I fear, constituents of mine &#8212; elderly people living on fixed incomes &#8212; aren\u2019t going to be able to make their power bills, aren\u2019t going to be able to pay to heat their homes because the price of electricity is going to be increased dramatically if the power companies are mandated, as apparently they are in Hawaii, to use higher percentages of renewables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is the political power of coal in West Virginia preventing the state from moving toward more renewables?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the state is being prevented from moving toward renewables,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s happening. The guys at Mountain View Solar do a great job. I had the pleasure of working with Mike McKechnie and Colin Williams through the last legislative session on some legislation they were interested in. They were interested in making sure that the net metering that is available to the people who have solar installation remains available to them. That means that they get to sell their power back to the power company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not for having everything frozen in time,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know that it serves anyone\u2019s interest for the government to interject itself into that process and decide for everybody for all time how it\u2019s going to be. Market forces have a role in this too. If the government intervenes in that fashion, it\u2019s going to mean little old ladies aren\u2019t going to be able to pay their heating bills in the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t anybody who is on solar that at this point can rely on that 100 percent,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe sun doesn\u2019t alway shine and the wind doesn\u2019t always blow. The renewables don\u2019t generate the energy that we need in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also says he\u2019s opposed to a nationwide citizens movement &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpopularvote.com\/\">nationalpopularvote.com<\/a> &#8212; that would bypass the Electoral College and allow for the popular vote of the President.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of American history, four Presidential candidates who came in second in the popular vote were elected President by the Electoral College &#8212; John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and George W. Bush in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Under the National Popular Vote legislation, all of the state&#8217;s electoral votes would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes\u2014that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538).<\/p>\n<p>So far, the National Popular Vote law has been enacted by eleven jurisdictions possessing 165 electoral votes \u2014 61% of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump called the National Popular Vote proposal \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never support that,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the National Popular Vote scenario, you could have a situation where the citizens of West Virginia voted overwhelmingly &#8212; 75 percent to 25 percent &#8212; for a particular candidate, but the state\u2019s electors would have to vote for the defeated candidate in West Virginia because that candidate won the national popular vote. The people of West\u00a0Virginia deserve to have their voices heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that many people who support the National Popular Vote proposal start from the premise that the President of the United States is to be elected by popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the Constitution of the United States leaves the election of the President to the states &#8212; not to the people &#8212; to the states themselves,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe Constitution allocates a number of electors. It is related to population, because the number of electors assigned is based on the representation in Congress. But it\u2019s not a national popular vote contest. Never has been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that the move to secure the popular vote of the President is being driven by \u201cbig states pushing to have small states surrender their authority and autonomy to the more populated states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would say to the people of California that the people of West Virginia are surrendering their part in determining who the President of the United States is,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not agree with it and if it ever passes in West Virginia, it will be over my no vote and strenuous objection,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia State Senator Charles Trump (R-Morgan 15) is open to the repeal of the state\u2019s minimum wage law. 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